According to AFP, the threat of requisitioning personnel did not prevent the CGT from renewing the strike on this site.
The strike at the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery in Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime) was renewed unanimously on Wednesday morning, despite the threat brandished the day before by the Prime Minister to requisition the oil group’s depots, AFP noted. . About fifty striking employees voted by a show of hands to continue the strike, at the foot of the factory, where pallets are burning and without a police presence around, according to an AFP journalist on the spot.
“You are all targeted, the government wants to force us to come to work, we are going to fight against that, it is clearly a challenge to the right to strike. We are attacked frontally on our right to strike“, declared in front of the strikers, Christophe Aubert, CGT central union delegate, recalling that they were going”tackle” their “23rd day of strike“. “A historic movement“, he welcomed.
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According to the CGT, 45 strikers were counted on Wednesday at 6 a.m. out of the hundred scheduled for the morning shift and in the shipping department, 6 employees are strikers out of the ten usually in post. “We hear since yesterday (Tuesday) that we are going to be requisitioned immediately but we have no documents, we cannot speculate on things that we do not yet have, if it falls to flout the right to strike we will react by going to court with a summary“said Reynald Prevost, FO coordinator.
On Tuesday, during the session of questions to the government in the National Assembly, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced the requisition of personnel to unblock the fuel depots of the Esso-ExxonMobil group where a salary agreement was concluded Monday by two trade unions. , majority at group level but not at its refineries.