The management of the group offers employees “4.6% increase for all, which is added to the 2.3% of the branch”.
The management and the unions of Enedis reached an agreement on Tuesday evening on wages which must still be submitted to the employees and formally signed by the trade unions, we learned on Wednesday from the CGT. Management offered4.6% increase for all, which is added to the 2.3% of the branch“, As well as individual measures and a bonus, Julien Lambert, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT, told AFP.
First union of the manager of the electricity distribution network, the CGT demanded, to compensate for inflation, an increase representing “at least 200 euros gross per month» for all employees, including the revaluation of the basic national salary provided for by the branch agreement and the increase within the company. Contacted by AFP, the management of Enedis confirms that an agreement has “been proposed for signature by the trade union organizations until November 22“.
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Even if the CGT refused to sign this agreement subject to signature until November 18, the three other representative unions (CFDT, FO, CFE-CGC) could sign it in majority. By comparison, in the same energy sector, the management of GRDF proposed a 2.3% increase. “When I see the Enedis agreement, and when I see the GRDF agreement, it highlights even more the lesser distance of GRDF in its negotiations“, observed Julien Lambert, who points to a”risk of bitterness among employees” from “cousinof Enedis in charge of gas distribution.
“Many agents ask us not to let go“Said Eric Gautier, CGT union coordinator for GRDF, according to whom”many sites have been blockedTuesday, by strikers from Enedis, but also from GRDF. The day mobilized 42% of strikers at Enedis, and around 20% at GRDF, according to the FNME-CGT. “A few years ago, we all worked together, (…) so today, GRDF agents will experience Enedis’ decision as an injustice for them», underlined Julien Gautier. “It is not impossible, unfortunately, given the anger that is mounting, that there are actions that are carried out in certain places of the territory that we will no longer control.“, he concluded, referring to “interventions on the network“, likely to disrupt the gas supply to customers. GRDF employs nearly 11,500 people throughout France, Enedis has around 38,000.