PARIS (Reuters) – The CGT trade union organization has voted to continue the strike in the refineries of TotalEnergies, Fabien Cros, elected CGT of the oil group in La Mède (Bouches du Rhône), told Reuters on Saturday.
The CGT, which withdrew from negotiations following the signing by TotalEnergies of a majority agreement on wages with the CFDT and the CFE-CGC, announced on Friday that it wanted to extend the strike.
According to the BFMTV channel, which quotes Eric Sellini, the CGT coordinator of TotalEnergies, the protest movement was renewed in the refineries of La Mède, Feyzin (Rhône) and Flandres (Nord) when the strike had already been extended until Tuesday at the Normandy and Donges refineries.
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, majority shareholders according to management, there is no however, no more striking employees on the sites.
In an interview with BFMTV, the French Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, said on Saturday that 27.3% of service stations were in supply difficulty at the national level, with a break of at least one month. produced against 28.5% on Friday evening.
In Ile-de-France, the situation has not improved since 39.9% of service stations are now affected by fuel shortages against 37% on Friday, according to figures from the minister.
In Hauts-de-France, 22% of service stations are concerned against 25.3% on Friday, while in the Center Val de Loire, we went from 42.2% on Friday to 36.4% on Saturday.
(Written by Claude Chendjou, with Matthieu Rosemain, Forrest Crellin and Reuters offices)