by Caroline Pailliez and Forrest Crellin
PARIS (Reuters) – TotalEnergies announced on Friday the signing of a majority agreement on wages with the CFDT and the CFE-CGC, following the compromise reached overnight with the two organizations, while the CGT, which was withdrawn from the negotiations, renewed the strike on the five sites of the oil group already blocked in France.
“Under this agreement, the company will grant a package of salary increases for 2023 of 7% of salaries”, explains TotalEnergies in a press release.
“The general and guaranteed increases will be paid from December and will be retroactive to November 1,” he said, stressing that they will be accompanied by a bonus corresponding to one month’s salary.
“Under these conditions, given the signing of this majority agreement, TotalEnergies calls for an end to the strike on all of its sites”.
For Geoffrey Caillon, CFDT TotalEnergies delegate, “it is an agreement favorable to young people and low salaries”, “the result of a compromise”.
“We are not satisfied with all our demands but when we negotiate, we come up with demands and we know that we will not get 100% of all our demands,” he told Reuters.
STRIKE ENDED AT ESSO-EXXONMOBIL
The CGT of TotalEnergies, which left the negotiating table overnight from Thursday to Friday, one of its representatives denouncing a “masquerade” and judging the management’s proposals very insufficient, continues the showdown.
At Esso, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, another oil group affected by the ongoing social conflict, despite a wage agreement signed earlier this week by the CFDT and the CFE-CGC, the majority according to management, there was no on the other hand, no more striking employees on the sites on Friday morning, Germinal Lancelin, CGT ExxonMobil Chimie general secretary, told Reuters.
The walkouts had already ended Thursday at midday at the Esso site in Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhône) and they were lifted on Friday morning at the Gravenchon-Port-Jérôme site (Seine-Maritime) .
The group said it expects a return to normal production within two to three weeks.
The government, which since Wednesday has carried out “targeted requisitions to relieve the situation of the French” but denounced by the CGT as an attack on the right to strike, does not intend to order new ones, said Agnès Pannier on LCI. -Runcher.
“At this stage, we have made the requisitions which were essential to enable us to supply the service stations. It is not our wish to interfere in a social negotiation”, said the Minister for Energy Transition.
The administrative court of Rouen (Seine-Maritime) rejected Friday morning the summary filed by the CGT to contest the requisitions of the staff on the Esso-ExxonMobil site of Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine.
The administrative court of Lille also rejected on Friday an appeal by the CGT against the requisition order concerning the TotalEnergies site in Dunkirk (North).
(Report Forrest Crellin and Caroline Pailliez, written by Myriam Rivet, edited by Kate Entringer and Sophie Louet)