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Fuel shortage: strike renewed at TotalEnergies, update on this decisive day in the face of requisitions

2022-10-12T05:53:14.903Z


The government has already launched the procedure to requisition Esso personnel in order to allow the resumption of activity and the replenishment.


Will the strikers of the oil groups give in to the threat of requisitions brandished by the government?

The day of this Wednesday promises to be decisive as a third of service stations are still affected by fuel shortages.

Two possibilities: lay down their arms and abandon a conflict that has been going on for many weeks at Esso-ExxonMobil as at TotalEnergies to demand wage increases or hold on and take the risk of a brutal epilogue.

The CGT has already announced that the movement was renewed at TotalEnergies for all the sites concerned.

The strike was also renewed at the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery in Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime).

Update on the state of mobilization.

Requisitions at Esso-ExxonMobil

Under fire from opposition critics, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced the requisition of personnel to unblock the fuel depots of the Esso-ExxonMobil group.

A wage agreement had been concluded the day before within this oil giant by two trade union organizations, majority at the level of the group but not in its refineries.

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Fuel shortage: the government requisitions Esso-ExxonMobil personnel

Thus Élisabeth Borne underlined the scope of the agreement reached on Monday at Esso-ExxonMobil: “Social dialogue means moving forward, once a majority has emerged.

These are not minimum agreements.

Management's announcements are significant.

"From then on, I asked the prefects to initiate, as permitted by law, the procedure for requisitioning the personnel essential to the operation of the depots of this company" in Gravenchon (Seine-Maritime) and Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches -du-Rhône), chained the Prime Minister.

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Elisabeth Borne also mentioned the possibility of requisitions at TotalEnergies.

This group invited the representative unions which “do not participate in the strike movement” to a meeting of “consultations and exchanges” this Wednesday afternoon.

“If the CGT lifts all site blockages before noon tomorrow, it will be welcome at this dialogue meeting,” said the French energy giant.

The decrees "ready", the strike continues

The Ministry of Energy Transition clarified Tuesday evening that the staff requisition orders were “ready” for the Esso-ExxonMobil depots, but not yet taken.

The ministry wants to believe in a “resumption of activity”, in particular at the deposit of the Gravenchon refinery.

"We hope that this recovery will continue and that we will not need to resort to requisition measures," he added.

There were actually a few fewer strikers on Tuesday afternoon, admitted a union source, who however refused to speak of a resumption of work.

Moreover, the strike at the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery in Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime) was renewed this Wednesday morning unanimously by the fifty or so employees present.

The ministry said another requisition order was ready for the TotalEnergies fuel depot in Flandres, near Dunkirk.

It "will be activated if the strike continues tomorrow despite the planned opening of negotiations", he warned.

This should therefore be put in place, after the CGT announced this Wednesday morning the renewal of the strike on all of the group's sites.

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The CGT Confederation will call “in the event of requisition, all its bases, all its structures (…) to massively join all the strike pickets on the refineries”, he warned.

In the event of a requisition, "we will go to court to have them canceled", also warned Éric Sellini, CGT coordinator for TotalEnergies, while the CGT of Esso-ExxonMobil denounced "a questioning of the right to strike".

Source: leparis

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