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Several strikes in progress in nuclear power plants, that of Gravelines soon affected

2022-10-12T15:42:12.722Z


In Tricastin (Drôme), Cruas (Ardèche), Bugey (Ain), Cattenom (Moselle), as well as in Gravelines, the strikers are demanding a revaluation of


The employees of nuclear power plants are mobilizing, for the same reasons as the refinery strikers.

Several power plants had been experiencing strikes for weeks for a salary increase, likely to cause delays in the work prior to the restart of certain reactors.

On Thursday, the Gravelines plant, the most powerful in Western Europe, will join the movement.

In Gravelines (Nord), the employees, on strike at the call of FO and the CGT to demand a 5% increase in their gross salary, threaten to delay the connection to the network of one of the six 900 MW reactors, which will be stopped this weekend for annual maintenance and must be restarted before the end of the year.

According to the FO secretary of the social and economic committee, Franck Redondo, a delay in the connection would have no consequences for individuals, but would lead to "cuts" in companies.

"Strikes may have an impact on certain maintenance work," said EDF, without being able to immediately assess whether the schedule for returning these facilities to the network would be affected by these movements.

If necessary, EDF would be required to communicate it.

Strikes for several weeks

Other centrals have been experiencing strikes for several weeks, at the call of inter-unions, also to obtain salary increases and a consideration of inflation.

The Tricastin (Drôme), Cruas (Ardèche), Bugey (Ain), Cattenom (Moselle) power plants are particularly affected by these strikes, which are delaying, for some, the tests prior to their return to the network after planned maintenance operations or work to solve corrosion problems, while France is experiencing a very tense situation at the approach of winter, with a large part of the nuclear fleet which is unavailable.

At the branch level, after months of arm wrestling, the employers of the electricity and gas industries and the unions reached an agreement on October 6, subject to signature until Monday, which notably provides for an increase of 3.6% of the basic national salary over 2022 and 2023, including 2.3% for 2023.

Advances "significant but far from reaching the demands", in particular of the FNME-CGT, indicated its federal secretary Fabrice Coudour.

“As it is a branch agreement, there will be company negotiations behind it,” he added, specifying the purpose of these strike movements.

The CGT notably asked for inflation to be caught up and recalled, through the voice of Fabrice Coudour, that it was around 6% in August.

There is “no trend that emerges for the moment” from the consultation of the base by the CGT unions in the electricity and gas industries, to find out whether this agreement will be ratified by the union, concluded Fabrice Coudour.

Source: leparis

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