The CGT union of RTE indicated on Monday night that a call for a strike was launched for Tuesday by all the union organizations of the manager of the high and very high voltage lines, on the eve of a last round of salary negotiations .
Negotiations began in a tense atmosphere on November 22 and were unable to conclude during a second session on December 1, the CGT Federation of Mines and Energy said in a press release.
RTE management has confirmed the announcement of a strike and the holding of a final bargaining session on Wednesday 7th December. The strike could disrupt maintenance sites, said Francis Casanova, representative of the CGT central union for RTE.
To compensate for inflation in 2022/2023, the first union in the group demands a 6.9% increase for all.
Management rejects union demands
The management had indicated at the end of November that during the first meeting it had proposed an increase of 2.3% for all employees, as well as a “permanent cousin” of 2% with a floor of 95 euros/month for all employees and an envelope. increase of 1.84% for individual measures.
A day of strike on Thursday, November 24, at the call of an inter-union, mobilized 40% of the strikers on the present staff, according to the CGT, evoking the employers for their part a rate of 34%.
The social climate within RTE is tense, especially since four officers were taken into police custody at the beginning of October at the facilities of the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), following a complaint by RTE.
This complaint against X refers to suspicions of fraudulent interventions in the electrical network in the framework of the social movements of June and July. The four agents are summoned before the Criminal Court of Paris on February 28. The CGT Energy Federation then denounced a “criminalization of the right to strike”, aimed at “silencing wage demands”.
Source: BFM TV
