“No”, the government “is not right” in wanting to requisition the strikers from the oil groups, EELV deputy Sandrine Rousseau told France Info on Wednesday, following the threat made on Tuesday – and carried out on Wednesday by the tomorrow – by the prime minister. to requisition the deposits of the oil group. For those elected, the government “should pressure Total management and not the strikers.”
“I hope this is the spark that triggers a general strike movement,” Sandrine Rousseau reacted. “The anger in the country is such that I think there is real scope to block and change the liberal policies implemented by the government.”
Strikes “justified” for Sandrine Rousseau
The Ministry of Energy Transition announced this Wednesday morning the launch of the requisition of personnel “essential for the operation” of the fuel depot of the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery in Gravenchon-Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime), before the resumption of the strike before dawn.
For Sandrine Rousseau these strikes are “justified”. “Total has been making super profits for months, it’s incredible that all this money goes to the shareholders” of the company, and not to the employees, she argues. And estimate that “if we had increased wages, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation”, because it is an increase in wages that the strikers are demanding.
“Currently, the anger is such that the government must listen to what extent its liberal policies of breaking unemployment insurance, breaking pensions are no longer bearable today by the French men and women,” says the deputy.
Source: BFM TV
