TotalEnergies employees are not “prepared” to close the group’s refineries immediately, we learned on Thursday from the CGT, which finally calls for a 48-hour strike, Tuesday and Wednesday, against the 72 hours initially planned.
Il était envisagé initially d’arrêter la production dans les raffineries dans le cadre du mouvement de grève contre le projet de réforme des retraites: “ce qu’on va leur proposer pendant 48 heures, c’est ‘rien ne rentre, rien ne sort ‘, as usual”. To “know if the employees are ready” to stop, you first have to “test renewable (strikes),” said Thierry Defresne, CGT secretary of the TotalEnergies Europe committee.
“At the moment, the employees tell us that it is not the time to make this decision, it is the time to carry out renewable tests (stoppages) in 48 hours, to see the strength we have, to tell us and have all the elements at hand to make the decision when the question of stopping the installations arises”, said Thierry Defresne. “The only impact on the work tool will be the reduction of the production flow, but not a stoppage”, he also said.
“Crucial moment”
The CGT TotalEnergies had presented this deadline at the beginning of next week as a “crucial moment”, with its sights set on a hardening of the movement and a possible stoppage of certain refineries, as occurred during the important wage strike last month. October. For this reason, they finally favored unity with other branches: “the idea was to adhere to the call for railway workers on February 7 and 8, the objective is that there be as many as possible on the same dates and all hitting the same nail on the Same time”. time,” said Thierry Defresne.
Desiring an expansion of the trades represented in these strikes, he expects a hardening of the movement in the regions for the next week, between the two national holidays of February 7 and 11: “perhaps we can witness a radicalization of the movement, what that will make the decision to stop the facilities be taken” later, he added, considering that “it is really the reaction of the interpro on the job boards that will be able to guide”
“We are not on the defensive,” said Thierry Defresne, who stressed that a parliamentary majority “cannot be acquired” and that a government appeal to 49.3 could “set fire to gunpowder.”
Source: BFM TV
