The strike was “lifted” Friday on the site of the refinery Esso-ExxonMobil Port-Jerome-Gravenchon (Seine-Maritime), where a labor movement to demand wage increases had begun September 20, announced Christophe Aubert, central union delegate CGT.
“The strike movement is lifted here as in Fos-sur-mer, negotiations with management are blocked and requisitions are in place, we have no more leverage to fight,” added Mr. Aubert at the end of the general meeting at 2:00 pm.
“Employees are already calling on management for a new negotiation on December 6 for the mandatory annual negotiations,” he said.
Trade unionists and employees held a final vote in the early afternoon on a possible renewal of the 25-day strike at the Esso-ExxonMobil site in Normandy, which ended with a halt to the movement.
“CGT-FO-FSU-Solidaires call for large demonstrations and strikes for the day of October 18, wherever possible,” concluded Aubert.
The second French site of the oil company in Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhône) had lifted the strike on Thursday.
An agreement had been reached on Tuesday between management and two majority unions, including the CFDT, but not with the CGT, which had then decided to maintain the call to strike on both sites.
The site of Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon had been the first to be targeted by requisitions of personnel Wednesday evening to allow the delivery of fuel, in shortage in many stations.
The CGT’s appeal to the Rouen administrative court to challenge these requisition orders was rejected in the morning.
