“A wage disagreement does not justify blocking the country,” said the Prime Minister on Tuesday, who announced the requisition of the personnel necessary to unlock the Esso-Exxonmobil deposits, and, potentially, totalnergies.
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The implementation of the ultimatum will hardly be late. Tuesday, October 11, faced with the persistent strike in stations and fuel deposits which for more than ten days causes shortages and monster queues, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, pronounced the honest sentence of the unions: requisition. “A wage disagreement does not justify blocking the country,” thundered the Prime Minister since the National Assembly, announcing the requisition of the personnel necessary to unlock the Esso-Exxonmobil deposits, and stress that the threat could also apply Little little in the Totalenergies group.
The warning had been given the day before. In the evening of Monday, after a crisis meeting held in Matignon between Elisabeth Borne and the ministers concerned, Agnès Pannier-Runacher (energy transition), Gérald Darmanin (interior) and Clément Beaune (transport), accompanied by ‘Olivier Véran, spokesperson, the government had mentioned the idea of resorting to requisitions. Despite the pressure of certain ministers and part of the opposition castigating the “doglit” and the disorganization of the government, the Prime Minister had then delayed. “The government did not have a hand that trembles. But we left a chance to social dialogue, also to explain to the French where the blockages came,” says Clément Beaune.
In the morning, the situation seemed, in fact, about to untie. A salary agreement had been obtained between the management of the ESSO-Exxonmobil group and the majority unions suggesting a progressive release. At Totalenergies, management promised to open the negotiations. Las, a few hours later, the CGT and FO repudiated the agreement at Esso by announcing the continuation of the strike, also renewed in Totalenergies. “Some of the organizations, despite this agreement, wants to continue the blocking. We cannot accept it,” said Elisabeth Borne in the hemicycle, hoping that Total unions will seize “the outstretched hand”. “Otherwise, the government will act again to unlock the situation. (…) Everyone must take responsibility, the government will take their own,” she warned, insensitive to words pronounced earlier on Franceinfo by Emmanuel Lépine , secretary general of the National Federation of CGT chemical industries. In the event of requisitions, “it would be war,” he had alerted.
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