The CGT union does not approve of the agreement between the company and the majority unions and calls for a continuation of the strike, which at the moment is joined by five refineries of seven and five warehouses of 200 throughout France.
The strike at five TotalEnergies refineries will continue for the next week, at the initiative of the union CGT, although that the company reached agreement with the two majority unions.
The agreement provides for a general salary increase of 5% for workers and technicians, which will be 3.5% for employees with higher status.
The CGT, nevertheless, requires a 10% salary increase: 7% to compensate for the rise in the inflation and an additional 3% for the redistribution of the Benefits of the company.
TotalEnergies soared its profit in the first half of 2022 to $10.6bn thanks to the increase in the price of oil and gas due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions on Moscow.
Meanwhile, around a third of the gas stations in the country have a shortage of some fuel or are closedwith long queues and a lot of tension from drivers at service stations that have fuel.
Currently, the strikes led by the CGT union implicate five refineries of seven and five warehouses of 200. Initially, CGT announced the extension of the strike at the Le Havre refinery (north), the most important in France, will stop at least until Tuesday, to coincide with the nationwide strike day in various economic sectors, and that of Donges (west) at least until Wednesday. Later, he announced that the strike will also continue in three other refineries, those of Feyzin, Flandres and Mède.
However, in the first two, Le Havre and Donges, the Government has forced by decree to work to small groups of key workers, three employees per shift, in charge of unloading fuel into trucks, with the aim of trying to restore normality in distribution.
With the two French refineries of the US giant ExxonMobil back to work after the agreement closed this week, the Government is confident that the situation “will return to normal” progressively over the next week, according to a statement on Friday night. from the prime minister’s office.
Source: Eitb
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