The strike, launched five weeks ago, was lifted on Monday after the conclusion of an agreement between management and the CGT. The movement now continues only on the Totalnergies of the Feyzin Deposit, in the Rhône.
Le Monde with AFP
The CGT announced Wednesday, November 2, having ended the strike movement started over a month ago on September 27, at the Totalenergies refinery in Gonfreville-l’Orcher (Seine-Maritime), near Haven. The strike was lifted on Monday after the conclusion of an agreement between management and the union, said the secretary general of the CGT of the site, Alexis Antonioli, confirming Information from Paris-Normandie . The Directorate of Totalenergies also confirmed that “the strike [was] finished”.
The general meeting scheduled for Wednesday at 1 p.m. on Wednesday is canceled. The union said it would release a press release by Wednesday evening or Thursday. While the movement had been renewed Monday during the next generation of the 5 am, “a negotiation meeting made it possible to find an agreement”, specifies a source close to the file. 2> the strike continues only On the Feyzin website
The recovery of the installations of the Norman refinery “started”, but it “will take about a fortnight”, specifies the same source. “Fuel shipping, from the substantial stocks available on the site, will be able to be relaunched quickly.” In Gonfreville are refined approximately 12 million tonnes of crude oil per year, or 12 % of refining capacity in France, according to Totalenergies.
Gonfreville-l’Orcher was with the feyzin (Rhône) deposit one of the last two sites of Total to have voted for the continuation of the movement on October 27. The strike movement of the employees of the Norman refinery started on September 27, at the call of the Totalenergies CGT. Applicating 10 % increase, the CGT had not signed the national agreement concluding that a wage revaluation of 7 % and the payment of a premium of € 3,000
At the Feyzin fuel deposit, the strike continued on Wednesday, according to the CGT. “No requisitions this morning. The strikers hope for the imminent arrival of a mediator of the Republic, it becomes urgent,” commented the CGT union delegate of Feyzin, Pedro Afonso.
Totalenergies announced, on October 27, a profit of $ 6.6 billion in the third quarter of 2022, up 43 % compared to that of the third quarter 2021. The group has already garnered in nine months 17.3 billions of dollars in profits, more than for the whole of last year (16 billion).