On the twenty-third day of the strike, the end of the blockage sounded at the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery in Fos-sur-Mer, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, after a vote by the striking staff.
Thursday, at midday, the fuel stored in the depot began to be reshipped by trains, trucks and pipelines according to the normal operation of the site.
The refinery's production unit has restarted and will be fully operational in a few days, welcomes management.
But the relief was short-lived.
A few minutes later, the strike was renewed at the other end of the country, in the other Esso-ExxonMobil refinery, in Gravenchon-Port-Jérôme, near Le Havre.
"Discussions are still ongoing between management and the unions
," said a spokesman for Esso-ExxonMobil.
Same determination to continue the blockages in the refineries of TotalEnergies.
“The movement is renewed everywhere, with always very high rates of strikers”
, said Thursday in the middle of the day Thierry Defresne, CGT secretary of the TotalEnergies Europe committee, who demanded the opening of negotiations as soon as possible.
Message received by the management of the French group, which immediately summoned the main trade unions to wage negotiations on Thursday evening.
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Starting point for the negotiations: a proposal made early in the morning by the management of TotalEnergies, pressed to act by the President of the Republic and the government.
The oil and gas giant is putting on the table a 6% increase in the remuneration of its French employees, in addition to a bonus, equivalent to one month's salary, paid in December to all TotalEnergies employees around the world.
It remains to obtain the consent of the unions, in the first place that of the CGT, which continues to camp on its request for a 10% increase in wages since the start of the strike movement in the refineries of TotalEnergies, on September 27.
Anger is brewing, including in our professions
CGT Transport Federation, which represents truck drivers among others
Already, the CGT-Cheminots and Sud-Rail have called for a strike next Tuesday.
The CGT transport federation has in turn engaged by calling on its members to stop work.
"Anger is brewing, including in our professions
," warned the union, which represents truck drivers, among others.
A note from territorial intelligence, revealed by
Le Parisien
fears a “contagion” among dockers, port agents, or even employees in the automotive sector.
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The union representatives of the CGT TotalEnergies were to sit down at the negotiating table this Thursday evening, enlivened by the call for a
“national interprofessional strike”
launched by the CGT, FO Solidaires and FSU for Tuesday, October 18.
“We must generalize the strikes”
, launched Thursday the secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez, who believes that the government has
“underestimated the anger of the world of work, and not only at Total”
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