How to get out of the crisis, when a third of service stations are affected by fuel shortages? “I ask the employees who remain on strike despite the majority agreement, to respect this majority agreement and not to block the country with all the difficulties that it creates today for the French”pleaded Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, guest of the TF1 television news on Sunday, October 16. “Now we have to get back to work,” she added.
The strike at TotalEnergies continues in refineries and depots, for lack of agreement with the CGT on wage increases, with consequences that are still significant in many sectors of activity. The union intends to continue the movement until Tuesday, day of “mobilization and strike” interprofessional to which FO, Solidaires and the FSU also called. “If there are very tense situations tomorrow, we will proceed to requisitions”warns Elisabeth Borne.
In total, “nearly 30%” gas stations across the country were considered on Sunday to be ” in trouble “that is to say affected by the rupture of at least one of their products, according to Elisabeth Borne, a slight worsening compared to the previous day (27.3%).
“Because of the weekend, it’s a little degraded”confirmed the Prime Minister, even if “It has improved a lot in Hauts-de-France”where the government requisitioned personnel to unblock the fuel depots of the Esso-ExxonMobil group. “I can assure you that the government is very mobilized to do everything that can be within its control”she assured, pointing to the mobilization of strategic state stocks to restock service stations.
The Prime Minister added that the government intends to extend at least until mid-November the rebate of 30 euro cents on the price of a liter of fuel. She also said to hold, from the boss of Total himself, that the oil group will extend its discount of 20 centimes per litre.
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