The Rouen administrative court rejected on Sunday the CGT’s request for precautionary measures that challenged the legality of the requisitions of strikers at the TotalEnergies refinery in Gonfreville-L’Orcher (Seine-Maritime) operated on Friday by the prefecture. In his order, the administrative judge considered that the decree of the Seine-Maritime prefect “does not appear manifestly detrimental to the right to strike recognized and protected by the International Labor Organization convention.”
According to administrative justice, the state of the kerosene reserves at the Paris Roissy airport only authorized “reasonable operation” for three days. The airport then would not have been able to “maintain air traffic that prevents disturbances of public order linked to the massive presence of passengers deprived of flights” and ran the risk of “causing uncertainties that may affect air safety.”
“Lunar” motivations for the TotalEnergies CGT lawyer
Always according to the text, the requisition of three or four employees, depending on the shift, for a limited time, “does not tend to establish a normal service but rather aims to ensure, through a limited but sufficient number of agents and a list reduced to precisely defined essential tasks, a minimal pump-and-ship service. On Saturday, the CGT’s lawyers had argued in particular that no essential service for the safety of people and property was affected by the supply difficulties.
“The reality is that the reasons for the decree are lunar,” the TotalEnergies CGT lawyer Elsa Marcel reacted on Sunday. “What is at stake is political. The decision comes at a time of intense mobilization against a State that maintains its position. We did not see a judge making another decision in this context,” she said.
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Source: BFM TV
