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Shortage of fuel: strike renewed at TotalEnergies on the five sites of the movement

2022-10-13T06:11:32.411Z


TotalEnergies salaried strikers "categorically" refused management's request to resume fuel deliveries


No prospect of ending the crisis.

The strike in the French refineries continues, the CGT announces this Thursday morning that the movement is renewed at TotalEnergies on the five sites of the movement.

Late Wednesday evening, strikers at TotalEnergies firmly declined a management proposal to release dawn deliveries as a precondition for opening in the wake of wage negotiations.

"It's a massive categorical refusal, they (the employees) do not want this requirement to negotiate", declared Thierry Defresne, CGT secretary of the TotalEnergies Europe committee at the end of a night meeting at the group's headquarters in La Défense. .

“What does the CGT want?

Salary negotiations are legitimate.

The general blocking of the country?

It is unacceptable, ”commented this Thursday morning on RTL the Minister of the Economy.

Bruno Le Maire believes that "the CGT must clarify its position" but also that "Total must increase its salaries".

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“We lost too much time, now we are negotiating without conditions”, he continued, considering that the “requirements” of TotalEnergies, namely “release of product (fuel)” were synonymous with “soft requisition”.

TotalEnergies for its part confirmed “the negative outcome of the night's discussions”.

However, the dialogue seemed to have been renewed earlier in the day when the management had agreed for the first time to receive the CGT.

Until then, it required as a prerequisite the lifting of blockages to see the second union of the group.

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Fuel shortage: Emmanuel Macron promises a return to normal in the coming week

The conflict entered a new phase on Wednesday with the execution of the threat of requisitions by the government, which currently affect four employees of the fuel depot of the ExxonMobil Port-Jérôme/Notre-Dame-de- Gravenchon (Seine-Maritime), ordered to reopen the floodgates.

“Scandalous decision”, protested Philippe Martinez, leader of the CGT, who came in support of ExxonMobil employees, and who announced the filing of an interim order Thursday to oppose it.

“The pumping was able to start and the fuel be injected into the pipeline intended to supply the Île-de-France”, specified in the evening the prefecture of Seine-Maritime.

How to improve the situation?

President Emmanuel Macron has planned a return to normal in the distribution of fuels "during the coming week", during an interview on France 2 on Wednesday evening.

For the time being, the shortages continue, putting the nerves of motorists on edge.

Update on the shortage

Wednesday at 5 p.m., 30.8% of service stations lacked one or more fuels (31.3% Tuesday), according to the Ministry of Energy Transition.

A worse proportion in Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France and Center-Val-de-Loire.

Six of the seven refineries in France were on strike on Wednesday: the four from TotalEnergies and the two from Esso-ExxonMobil.

Only that of Lavéra (Petroineos group) is not blocked.

Added to this are the TotalEnergies depots in La Mède (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Flandres, which supply Hauts-de-France, both shut down.

Source: leparis

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