A meeting took place on Thursday morning between the CGT strikers of the TotalEnergies refinery in Feyzin (Rhône) and the local management but it did not allow to untangle the situation, deplored the
union.
“A future discussion” is “promised” by the management when “the strike will be lifted”, said to AFP Pedro Afonso, CGT union delegate in Feyzin, sorry that this meeting has “nothing” on wage claims, unlike that organized at the TotalEnergies refinery in Gonfreville-L’Orcher (Seine-Maritime), where the strike was lifted Wednesday.
Feyzin is the last TotalEnergies site to continue the strike that began at the Group’s refineries on October 27.
In a message to the press, Mr. Afonso said that a “temporary device (monthly bonus for 6 months) has been implemented by the management of the refinery Gonfreville”, and said he did not understand “why it is not implemented in Feyzin.
For the union, “this proves the determination of the general management not to give in to the Feyzinois strikers in an irresponsible way”.
On Wednesday, TotalEnergies’ management had “firmly denied any local agreement on wages” at Gonfreville, while Alexis Antonioli, General Secretary of the CGT union at the site, had mentioned an agreement without specifying its content.
Since the end of September, the strike has continued in a sustained manner at Feyzin, with 80% of strikers counted on Thursday, who have been demanding in vain since the end of October the intervention of a mediator of the Republic.
“The movement is now going to become more radical because we are fed up with waiting for a mediator to arrive,” said the CGT union delegate, announcing that the strikers will block the A7 next week as a sign of protest.
Contacted by AFP, the management of TotalEnergies had not yet reacted early Thursday afternoon.
The Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher said Thursday morning on Public Sénat that no requisition would take place in Feyzin “within 48 hours”. But “we will monitor the situation as closely as possible to ensure that Auvergne/Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne/Franche-Comté are relieved,” she said.
