After about six hours of meetings, the CGT negotiators left the first negotiation between the unions and TotalEnergies management since the start of the refinery strike at around 02:00 on the night of Thursday to Friday, dissatisfied with salary increase proposals made by the oil group.
The negotiator hinted that the reformist unions (CFE-CGC and CFDT) for their part would sign an agreement: “We firmly believe that there are union organizations, which did not call the strike, that will be signatories of this agreement in the hope of putting an end to the the movement”.
A “determined” move
He mentioned a “scenario similar to that of Exxon”, the other oil group affected by a strike at its two French refineries, and where the two majority unions signed an agreement with the bosses, without the CGT.
But, according to them, the strikers of the TotalEnergies sites will not accept during the votes on Friday the offer made by TotalEnergies, that is, a general increase of 5% with a minimum increase of 2,000 euros. The CGT says that it has made a counterproposal, which it has not revealed.
The two negotiators from the CGT, the group’s second largest union, added that “if management ever wants to contact us again, they have our cell phones.” On the CFE-CGC side, coordinator Dominique Convert told AFP via text message: “We’re not done, but we’re almost at the end.”
Source: BFM TV
