According to Agnès Panier-Runacher, the number of service stations has gone from 29.4% on Monday to 31.3% today, almost a third in the entire territory. This rate will increase mechanically with the blockade of the Donges oil plant in Loire-Atlantique, whose employees have decided to join the strike movement.
Currently, the two most affected regions remain Hauts-de-France with 44.8% of service stations affected (compared to 48.4% yesterday) and Ile-de-France with 44% (compared to 33 .9% of yesterday).
Faced with this situation, Elisabeth Borne announced the requisition of personnel for the unlocking of the fuel tanks of the Esso-Exxonmobil group. On the other hand, the employees of the TotalEnergies refineries, also on strike, are for the moment unscathed.
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This measure, as rare as it is radical, was already applied in France in 2010 for the same refinery employees. That year, France was paralyzed by strikes against pension reform. Transport is stopped, all fuel tanks are blocked. By order of the government of Nicolas Sarkozy, the prefects then launched requisitions. These had been challenged in court and some prefectural rulings were later annulled.
The President of the Government justified this difference in treatment by the fact that a majority agreement, signed by the CFE-CGC and the CFDT, had been found in salaries at Esso-ExxonMobil.
“Social dialogue is moving forward, once the majority has emerged. They are not minimum agreements. Management announcements are significant. For this reason, I asked the prefects to undertake, as permitted by law, the procedure for requisitioning the personnel essential for the operation of the warehouses of this company,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
