four refineries still on strike, start of requisitions at the Dunkirk depot

• The strike in the refineries continued, Thursday, October 13, at Esso-ExxonMobil, targeted by the first requisitions of employees. Four employees of the fuel depot at the Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon refinery (Seine-Maritime) were thus ordered to reopen the valves. “The pumping was able to start and the fuel was injected into the pipeline intended to supply Ile-de-France”announced Wednesday evening the prefecture of Seine-Maritime.
• On the side of TotalEnergies, the situation was at a standstill after the strikers refused to release fuel shipments to supply dry service stations. This management proposal was a precondition for the opening of negotiations. “We wasted too much time, now we are negotiating without conditions”said Thierry Defresne, CGT secretary of the TotalEnergies Europe committee.
• Asked about France 2 on Wednesday evening, Emmanuel Macron planned a return to normal in the distribution of fuels “during the coming week”. Moreover, he again called “responsibility” the management of TotalEnergies and the CGT.
• Wednesday at 9 p.m., 30.8% of service stations lacked at least one type of fuel (31.3% Tuesday), according to the Ministry of Energy Transition. This proportion is higher in Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France and Centre-Val de Loire.
• In all, six of the seven refineries in France were on strike on Wednesday: the four from TotalEnergies and the two from Esso-ExxonMobil. Only that of Lavéra (Petroineos group) is not blocked. Added to this are the TotalEnergies depots in La Mède (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Flandres (Nord), both shut down.
• The TotalEnergies strikers are demanding a 10% wage increase: 7% to offset inflation and 3% to better share the group’s profits ($10.6 billion in profits in the first half of 2022). They thus wish to renegotiate the increases granted at the beginning of 2022 (+ 3.5% average increase in wages). Those of Esso-ExxonMobil are asking for a 7.5% increase in wages, for inflation, as well as a bonus of 6,000 euros for the redistribution of profits ($ 17.9 billion in the second quarter of 2022 at global level).

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