If the unions are defeated by Total management, “employees will lose a lot of purchasing power,” said Thierry Defresne, CGT secretary of the European committee TotalEnergies. “We have entrepreneurs who have decided to keep all the profits. If Total does not distribute, nobody distributes ”, he said last night, a few hours before the CGT abandoned negotiations with the leadership of the large group, denouncing a” masquerade “
“Then we need a global reaction. (…) We must change our demands: now we must ask for the indexation of wages to inflation,” he told reporters.
“We will have to go further and we all fight together”
The CGT, FO, Solidaires, the FSU and the youth organizations Fidl, Unef, MNL and the Vie lycéenne called for a day of strike and interprofessional demonstrations on Tuesday, October 18, according to a press release published this Thursday.
The workers are called to mobilize “for the increase of wages and the defense of the right to strike”, after the decision of the government to requisition the workers of the oil industry to allow the distribution of fuel, according to this text. But not because of “the indexing of wages to inflation.”
On the other hand, this demand is not new for the CGT, which requested the indexation of salaries to inflation in August 2022, when the INSEE indicated an increase of 6.1% in one year. The union also demanded an increase in the minimum wage to 2,000 euros gross.
Source: BFM TV
