Are the TotalEnergies sites alone concerned by the strike movement? In any case, this is the path taken by the protest this Friday morning after the CGT Esso-ExonMobil announced that it was lifting the strike until at least 2 p.m. on its Normandy site, according to a press release from the FO union.
The local section explained that the employees had decided at 6 am “to position themselves as non-strikers. We will take stock at 2 p.m. for a lifting of the movement ”.
“The employees have decided to return to work but to put an ultimatum to the management for the mandatory annual negotiation of December 6”, declared the center FO union representative at Esso-ExxonMobil, Pierre-Antoine Auger, specifying that a new vote to decide whether or not to resume the strike will be held at 2 p.m. The CGT confirmed that there were “no strikers on the morning shift”. “We are waiting to see if the 2 p.m. team will be on strike or not,” warned a CGT union source.
The Esso-ExxonMobil fuel depot in Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime) was the last of the group to be the subject of a protest movement, when the strike was lifted this Thursday at the start of the afternoon on the Fos-sur-Mer site (Bouches-du-Rhône).
The strike renewed at Total
The renewal of the strike was voted this Friday morning at the TotalEnergies refinery, in Gonfreville-L’Orcher, near Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), according to information from franceinfo. A little later, the CGT announced that the strike at TotalEnergies was renewed on all the sites of the movement.
The three other sites managed by the TotalEnergies group in Feyzin (Rhône), Donges (Loire-Atlantique) and at the “bio-refinery” in La Mède (Bouches-du-Rhône), as well as the Flandres fuel depot, near of Dunkirk (North), are thus still on strike this Friday morning at the call of the CGT, which slammed the door of the negotiations in the night. An agreement was however reached with the representatives of the two reformist unions CFDT and CFE-CGC.
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The movement was renewed on the five TotalEnergies sites after the relief votes between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., confirmed the CGT coordinator Éric Sellini. There is “not a site” of TotalEnergies where the strike has ended, also said Hakim Bellouz, of Force Ouvrière.