TotalEnergies announced this Wednesday that it would individually receive the representative unions of the oil group, including the CGT at the origin of the strike that began on September 27 and caused fuel shortages in a third of French service stations.
Thierry Defresne, secretary of the CGT of the European committee TotalEnergies Europe, said from the group’s headquarters in La Défense that he accepted this first meeting.
Initially, TotalEnergies had proposed to collectively join the four unions on Wednesday, except the CGT unless it lifts the strike affecting the group’s four refineries, but two of them had refused without the participation of the CGT, the second union of the group behind. the CFE-CGC.
The leadership finally proposed to see the CGT individually without the condition of lifting the blockades.
Technically, it will not be a meeting of “negotiations” on wages but of consultation and exchange, specified the CGT negotiator. The union is demanding a 10% wage increase by 2022 and wants official negotiations now, without making them conditional on the end of the strike.
Source: BFM TV
