In a tense social climate, several employee and student unions are calling for a national interprofessional day of action.
On the contrary to refineries, where the social movement is showing slight signs of improvement with the restarting of the Port-Jérôme site this Friday and the signing of an agreement at TotalEnergies overnight from Thursday to Friday, the French social climate seems to be improving. tender day by day. A feeling that the CGT, FO, Solidaires and the FSU, accompanied by the youth organizations Fidl, Unef, MNL and the High School Life intend to exploit. While the social and economic agenda promises to be loaded, with the vote on the budget and the next pension reform, the unions hope to strike a blow by organizing a day of strike. If it is too early to know the extent of the mobilization, many federations have already announced that they want to join and have issued a strike notice.
Already at the heart of the news for several days, chemistry will be part of it. The TotalEnergies refineries in Donges (Loire-Atlantique) and that of Normandy, near Le Havre, have already voted to strike until Wednesday 1 p.m. For the other three in the group,no worries, it lasts until tuesday», Launched, confident, Thierry Defresne, CGT secretary of the TotalEnergies Europe committee. Similar situation at EDF, victim of a social movement which has lasted since the end of September at the call of the Montreuil power station and FO. A strike”fully assumedby the FNME-CGT, which wants a “extension (…) to all energy companies».
Rising wages and support for refineries
The historical branches will also be there. Starting with the SNCF and the RATP. “We ask the unions to organize general site meetings on the 18th and we do not forbid ourselves any scenario for the conduct of the action“, indicated Thursday to AFP the secretary general of the CGT-Cheminots, Laurent Brun. Sud-Rail, the third representative union at the SNCF, also called for mobilization. They claim “a salary increase“, despite a first increase of 3.7% for low wages and 2.2% for executives obtained on July 6 after a day of strike. Similar request to the RATP where salaries have already been increased by an average of 5.2% over the year 2022, according to the management of the Régie. The appeal also concerns truck drivers.
Notices have also been filed for the three sides of the public service (State, territorial and hospital) by UFSE-CGT, the leading union in the sector. In addition to wanting to showtheir full support for the strike of workers in the oil industries“, the federation demands a 10% increase in the index point immediately, its indexation to inflation and the rejection of the pension reform.
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Another movement, but similar consequences, the CFDT-Santé, the leading union in the private hospitalization sector, also called for a strike on Tuesday, October 18 in profit-making clinics and retirement homes. She is asking for wage increases. The 200,000 employees of the profit sector are invited “to mobilize throughout the territory”the union said in a statement.
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