To access the factory, you have to go past the tent erected by the CGT. The symbol of the first days of struggle is worn, as is the union flag placed on the small slag heap in front. Four hundred days of strike, it starts to count: the Gardanne-Meyreuil coal-fired power plant has indeed been shutdown since December 7, 2018. However, it has not been deserted by its employees, who continue to maintain this huge complex opened in the 1950s, coupled since 2016 with a biomass unit.
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The "handling" room houses the cockpit for loading fuel into the two units of the plant. There, there are ten of them watching the ultra-modern control screens with one eye. It is the men of this service who are officially on strike. At seven, they paralyze the factory. The support fund for the 170 other workers makes up for the lost wages. “This ploy explains the duration of the conflict , recognizes Nadir Hadjali. But we are all united, united.
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