LIVE – Fuel Shortage: ExxonMobil Requisition Began

The CGT will send a delegation of four negotiators to the meeting organized at 2:00 p.m. by the management of TotalEnergies, according to CMR. She had invited them, provided the “lockdowns” were lifted. But the strike continues in the refineries.

Since the end of September, the average price of diesel has risen by more than 20 cents. An increase that the rise in the price of oil alone cannot explain. The law of supply and demand works to the total disadvantage of consumers.

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While the government announced on Wednesday the launch of the requisition of personnel “essential for the operation” of the fuel depot of the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery in Gravenchon-Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime), the unions threaten to demand this decision.

“The right to strike is a constitutional right, we will react by legal means,” says Reynald Prevost, ExxonMobil’s FO union coordinator at the microphone of BFMTV.

The strike at the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery in Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime) was unanimously renewed on Wednesday morning, despite the threat made the day before by the prime minister to requisition the oil group’s deposits.

Some fifty striking workers voted by show of hands to continue the strike, at the foot of the factory, where the pallets are burning and with no police presence around.

“Everyone is being targeted, the government wants to force us to come to work, we are going to fight against that, it is clearly a challenge to the right to strike. Our right to strike is being attacked head-on”, stated Christophe Aubert, representative of the CGT central union, in front of the strikers, recalling that they were going to “attack” their “23rd day of strike”. “A historic move,” he greeted. According to the CGT, on Wednesday at 6 in the morning there were 45 strikers out of the hundred scheduled for the morning shift and in the dispatch department 6 employees out of the ten who are usually on duty are strikers.

The TotalEnergies strikers renewed this Wednesday the movement for wages in all the sites involved, we learned from the CGT.

The Normandy refinery near Le Havre, the Flanders fuel depot near Dunkirk, the La Mède (Bouches-du-Rhône) “bio-refinery” and the Feyzin refinery have all voted to renovate “and the refinery de Donges (Loire-Atlantique) has entered the movement”, as announced the day before, said Eric Sellini, coordinator of the group’s CGT.

The Ministry of Energy Transition has announced the launch of the request for the “indispensable au function” personnel from the fuel tank of the Esso-ExxonMobil refiner in Gravenchon-Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime) face to the return of the grève avant early morning.

“The requisition will start today,” the ministry says. The Gravenchon refinery is one of two Esso-ExxonMobil refineries on strike, four of which are also within the TotalEnergies group.