France on the verge of collapse due to refinery strike

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this paralysis and blockages in various refineries and fuel tanks France continues this Friday despite a deal between TotalEnergies and several unions that do not have government approval. General Labor Confederation (CGT), leader of the strike that started two weeks ago.

Philippe Martínez, secretary general of the CGT, was right in an interview with the France Info radio station this morning: Refusal of the agreement reached at dawn between TotalÉnergies and the two majority centers (CFDT and CFE-CGC), because the proposed salary increase is far from demands for an overall increase of 10%.

According to the interpretation of the text by Martínezmanagement accepts an overall increase salaries 5%, When what your union is demanding is an overall wage increase of 10% to offset the rise in inflation and workers participating in the “wealth distribution” of group benefits, individual and seniority bonus increases will be added.

social dialogue

“For now, 5% is far from 10%. Half” The CGT’s “number one” stated that if the leadership agreed to sit at the table despite days of resistance, it was because the strike was “massive”.

This morning the workers’ general assemblies decided. Continuing strikes at TotalÉnergies refineries, but at two of ExxonMobil it was decided to go back to work. However, the situation may develop in the coming hours.

In another interview with LCI, Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher asked union organizations Continuing the negotiations with the argument that “social dialogue is the only way out”.

The minister insisted The forced mobilization of workers decided so far by the government has been “selective”. and in order to supply the maximum number of gas stations.

No deal with TotalEnergies

It should be noted that 29.1% of those who were not in the country were there this Thursday afternoon. fuel, depending on your department. And in most cases, queues at stocked gas stations require more than an hour to wait in line.

Pannier-Runacher reiterated that “it is important to find a majority agreement in the next few hours” to end a conflict that has greatly damaged Emmanuel Macron’s government.

It’s also a conflict risks being aggravated by the call for strikes in all sectors, Wage increases, including public administrations, will be demanded by a group of unions, again led by the CGT, next Tuesday, which, above all, offsets inflation.

Some, as Martínez fell, Depending on the decision of the participants, it may be extended in the following days.

Before that, the great party of the left, La France Insumisa held a national demonstration in Paris on Sunday for purchasing power, which the unions did not participate in.

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