The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Total: end of the strike at the Grandpuits refinery

2021-02-12T15:34:16.144Z


The showdown that began in early January ended at 2 p.m. on Friday, the oil group announced. This is the end of a strike movement that has been going on for more than a month. This Friday, the oil giant Total announced to Le Figaro that the strike movement which paralyzed the Grandpuits refinery had ended at 2 p.m. The employees on the spot had been mobilized since January to protest against the conversion project of the site of the French oil tanker. To read also: "We are ready to conti


This is the end of a strike movement that has been going on for more than a month.

This Friday, the oil giant Total announced to

Le Figaro

that the strike movement which paralyzed the Grandpuits refinery had ended at 2 p.m.

The employees on the spot had been mobilized since January to protest against the conversion project of the site of the French oil tanker.

To read also: "We are ready to continue the fight": the refiners of Grandpuits engaged in a long standoff with Total

The firm explains that it has taken "

two important steps

" this week, which made it possible to stop the mobilization: first, "

the culmination of the social process provided for in the context of the reconversion project

" of the site;

then, the "

signing of social support measures for site employees, voted by the majority of trade unions

".

Total adds that individual interviews will soon be conducted to allow “

each employee [to express] his wishes for professional development and benefit from a solution adapted to his situation

”.

The group specifies that this reconversion will be carried out "

without any redundancy

", in accordance with its commitments: 250 jobs out of the current 400 on the Grandpuits platform will be maintained, and "

15 additional jobs will be created [...] in a unit of packaging downstream of the bioplastics unit

”.

Early retirement and internal mobility "

to other sites of the group

" will complete these adaptations, like what has already been done in other similar situations in the group: "

On the Carling sites or the Mede, who have also experienced industrial transformations, there have been no layoffs, but retirements and internal mobility to other company sites

, ”Total recalls.

Concern of the CGT on the jobs concerned

Total explains that it has also "

produced a precise mapping of partner companies operating on the platform

", ie the equivalent of "

300 full-time jobs

" indirectly affected by the retraining.

The group ensures that it will support "

each company affected by the development of the site

": its future activity on site "will

continue to call primarily on its partner companies, representing the equivalent of 200 full-time jobs

".

Or a hundred less than at present.

The company estimates that the reconversion of its site will require a major site, an investment "

of more than 500 million euros

" allowing to create "

up to 1000 jobs during the three years of construction of the new units

".

Total also specifies that it wants to work with the executive of the Île-de-France region, in order to welcome "

other industries on the land that will be made available on the Grandpuits site

" and around it.

Total announced last September that it wanted to convert its Grandpuits refinery by the end of 2023. The conversion project is based on the production of biofuels and bioplastics, as well as on the operation of two solar photovoltaic plants.

The group had said it expected the elimination of 150 jobs out of the 400 on the site, and many employees had mobilized in recent weeks against this project.

In total, the CGT estimated that 700 direct and indirect jobs were threatened.

"

There will be no redundancy or forced transfer

, assured

Figaro

Jean-Marc Durand, the director of the site of Grandpuits

.

This ambitious project is also an opportunity for many to give a new direction to their professional career

, ”he added.

After more than a month of strike, the dialogue seems to have allayed the fears of the unions.

Source: lefigaro

All life articles on 2021-02-12

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.