France supports twelve days of strike at their service stations Total energies and Exxon Mobil. A measure of force that interrupts the distribution of fuel in much of the country and generates endless lines in search of gasoline and diesel. The strike has just been extended until Tuesday.
They may finally be closer to a way out: Total Energies has proposed to the CGT, which is leading the strike, to organize mandatory annual negotiations this month. It is the unions that have to choose the date. But they demand, in return, that the blocks be lifted while various applications are launched on the Internet to try to do so find a gas station with fuel.
TotalEnergies CGT had not responded by Sunday evening. The company’s management has opened the doors to satisfy the strikers’ main request: their request for Increase of 10 percent.
“These negotiations will make it possible to define how employees will benefit from, by the end of the year outstanding results generated by TotalEnergies, taking into account the inflation of 2022, so that these negotiations are successful and not penalize all the French, ”said a source of the company.
“TotalEnergie wants all employees to be a priority and receive the right reward for their payroll efforts by the end of the year,” they said.
Negotiations in the energy crisis
TotalEnergie’s attitude is due to the position of the CGT, which has proposed to set aside two requests for contracts and investments to focus on increase to workers.
It was the request of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, that he invited the company and the unions to discuss “To conclude these negotiations”, which take the French hostage.
Exxon Mobil announced plans to meet with its workers this Monday and four trade union organizations will be in attendance, representing its staff.
To varying degrees, the strike affects Total Energies, which is the group’s largest refinery in Normandy, and Fezyn’s in the Rhone. But also to the American Esso Exxon Mobil, which has one office in Normandy and the other in Fos sur Mer, in Bouches du Rhone. Its inactivity produces discomfort and It prevents people from going to work.
Queues at petrol stations They can take miles.
The minister of energy transition said on Sunday that 29.7% of petrol stations in France had difficulties with at least one product. The worst situations occurred in the Hauts de France and Île de France, where the shortage was 54.8 and 44.9 per cent.
The negotiations will not be easy, especially in the face of the CGT, which has lost many members and has to deal with this strike a show of strength.
Participation in the results
In addition to salary increases 3.5 percent to offset inflation in France, refinery employees benefit an interest in participating in the company’s results, which reach 9,108 euros gross. The average monthly salary of a TotalEnergie refinery operator in France in 2022 was 5,000 euros per month gross, with participation interest included in that salary.
CGT is not as optimistic as the company. Recall that “in 2022 there are 18,000 million euros of dividends and share buybacks that it will be distributed to shareholders. We ask for our right “.
If an agreement is finally signed between TotalEnergie and CGT, the effects on gas stations will only be noticed in a dozen daysuntil trucks can refuel gas stations.
Long queues at gas stations
At gas stations, customer frustration increases. There is no more petrol or diesel. For example, they are forced to use the train and subway to distribute their goods.
At the pump, queues of motorists become the order of the day. “Yesterday I woke up at 4 in the morning to refuel. I was waiting 4 hours, “said a witness quoted by the AFP.
Parisian stations that limit expenses to 30 euros per customerothers who take the opportunity to show prices a more than 2 euros per litertraffic jams of several hundred meters on highways, concerts by speakers.
Macron intervenes
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne assured Sunday, on the sidelines of a trip to Algeria, that tensions in the supply of fuel at service stations “will improve over the course of the week”, with the arrival of “deliveries”, “in particular of the French ‘strategic exchanges’ “.
“We have released strategic stocks” of fuels “to refuel the service stations” and “these deliveries are gradually coming in,” he continued.
“The measures we have adopted have made it possible to increase deliveries by 20% compared to the usual flows”, also specified the head of the government, who said he was following the evolution “very close”.
With twenty days of conflict, President Emmanuel Macron has decided not to continue to underestimate the strength of both striking unions and to consider that around 30 percent of gas stations have difficulty with at least one fuel.
“Try to calm things down and find a responsible solution,” said an Elysée source.
The strike was redirected until next Tuesday.
Paris, correspondent
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Source: Clarin
