The TotalEnergies group has offered to bring forward its annual wage negotiations to October, provided that the strikes at several refineries and fuel depots, which are causing supply disruptions, end.
“Subject to the end of the blockades of the depots and the agreement of all the social partners, the Company proposes to bring forward to October the Mandatory Annual Negotiation which was scheduled for November,” the group announced in a statement on Sunday.
These negotiations “will make it possible to define how employees will be able to benefit, before the end of the year, from the exceptional results generated by TotalEnergies, while also taking into account inflation for the year 2022″, assures the French group, which has earned $10.6 billion in
profit in the first half of 2022.
He recalls that it had already been agreed with the social partners to bring forward to November 2022 these mandatory annual negotiations (NAO) “for the French employees of the TotalEnergies Common Social Base and not to wait until January 2023 as is usually the case”.
While many service stations are still experiencing supply disruptions, the CGT of the energy giant had sent Saturday an open letter to the CEO of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné, in which it made a concession in the hope of starting negotiations on Monday.
The union proposed to limit the discussions to the sole question of wage increases, putting aside for the time being its demands in terms of hiring and investments.
“If we start negotiations, it will be on the basis of our demands: we ask for 10% increase on wages,” and that it be “applied on January 1 and retroactive to the year 2022″, had however specified Eric Sellini, CGT coordinator at TotalEnergies.
The strike movement initiated ten days ago in the refineries and fuel depots of TotalEnergies and the U.S. group Esso-ExxonMobil was renewed Sunday morning and then again at 14:00 by employees, said the CGT to AFP.
As for TotalEnergies, the group’s largest refinery, based in Normandy, the one in Feyzin (Rhône), the “bio-refinery” in La Mède (Bouches-du-Rhône) and the Flandres fuel depot near Dunkirk (Nord) are “still completely shut down,” according to the CGT.
