“That the CGT allows the country to function.” Opposite Caroline Roux on France 2, Emmanuel Macron directly points to the unions in the social conflict at the origin of the fuel crisis. And he urges the CGT to put an end to the strike at the refineries.
The Head of State once again called on the management of TotalEnergies and the CGT to be “responsible”. Emmanuel Macron insisted that it is a “social dialogue” between the management and the unions to resolve conflicts. “Social dialogue must live”, according to him. “But I say it very clearly: if the social dialogue does not prosper in the next few hours, we are going to requisition”, he warned.
“Zero Negotiation”
But his appeal to the unions promises to be difficult. On our antenna, the FO delegate at TotalEnergies, Hakim Bellouz, is surprised by the request of the Head of State: “there are zero negotiations started”, he says.
On the CGT side, before the interview with Emmanuel Macron, Philippe Martínez, leader of the union, had denounced a “scandalous decision”, about the first requisition of four striking Esso-ExxonMobil employees to release fuel stocks and refuel. service stations in the Ile-de-France region.
Source: BFM TV
