They eventually gave in.
After more than three weeks off, the strikers at the Gonfreville refinery (Seine-Maritime), the largest in France, resumed work last Tuesday.
The last oil site still blocked by the CGT will therefore gradually go back into production, to the great relief of motorists exasperated by this blockade.
This strike embodied
to the point of caricature the archaism of social dialogue in our country.
Undoubtedly privileged employees (average salary of €5,000 gross per month for a TotalEnergies refinery operator) shamelessly used their capacity to cause harm to try to block the country.
With the enamored support of showbiz stars in search of thrills (
"What we want is to establish a balance of power",
according to the actress Adèle Haenel, who had made the trip) and the complicity of an administrative justice trying to prevent requisitions, a handful of hardliners hoped to compel the government...
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