The strike for wages will extend tomorrow to the Donges refinery, near Saint-Nazaire, in Loire-Atlantique. The CGT decided to join the movement in response to the searches announced by Elisabeth Borne.
“What makes us react: there are two points. First, the complete blockade by Total in the discussions and demands of our colleagues from other establishments for almost three weeks (…) And on the other hand, the requisitions that Elisabeth Borne has just made within Exxon, which are an attack on the constitutional right to strike,” Fabien Privé Saint-Lanne, secretary of the CGT union at the Donges refinery, told AFP, confirming information from Presse-Océan.
The government on Tuesday announced requisition measures to unlock the fuel depots of the Esso-ExxonMobil group and this “clearly set the gunpowder on fire,” Privé Saint-Lanne estimated.
suspension of shipments
The strike call, which emanates from the CGT and FO, will begin on Wednesday at 5 in the morning, “until a general meeting of workers that will take place on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. to discuss the terms and the follow-up that it will be given to the movement”, he detailed.
The strike will consist, according to him, of a “cutoff of shipments, loading, unloading. Neither trucks, nor ships, nor pipe.” The Donges refinery, which overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the five French refineries of the TotalEnergies group and has about 650 employees.
“We had a group that was still very tired, so we preferred to stay behind. We were on strike on September 27, 28, 29. But we prefer to suspend the movement”, he added.
Source: BFM TV
