The impact on air transport “can be immediate”, according to a union delegate.
The refuellers of the whole of France, responsible for supplying the planes with fuel, are called to go on renewable strike from Monday evening against the pension reform project, indicated the CGT, which presents itself as the first union in the this industry as a whole. The impact on air transportcan be immediate“, declared Wednesday to AFP Pierre Dalles, CGT union representative of the TotalEnergies Michelet site, in Toulouse: “We must declare 48 hours before the number of strikers“, he recalls, which allows oil companies and airlines to have an idea of the disruptions to be expected for air traffic.
The appeal, decided on Tuesday, concerns the companies GPA, Fas, Skytanking, Sasca, Sap, TotalEnergies, Avitair and WFS, present in the airports of Roissy, Orly, Le Bourget, Beauvais, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Tarbes, Perpignan, Nantes, Lille, Strasbourg, Rennes, Nîmes, Brest, Nice, Toussus, according to the CGT leaflet. “From March 6, all actions must be put in place to disrupt or stop the onboarding of airline fuels“, Supports the CGT, which will be followed by other unions, according to Pierre Dalles.
The union emphasizes theextreme arduousness” of the trade, whose employees work in shifts, “at atypical hours and at nightwhich increases the risk of contracting certain diseases. The hardship is recognized in this profession, where it is currently possible to leave with five years in advance, i.e. at the earliest at 55, “if we exceed 31 years of shifts“, indicated Pierre Dalles. “The more we will increase our working time in shifts, the earlier we will die, and it does not pass“, he concludes.
The CGT Federation of Chemistry, on which the refineries but also the refuellers depend, had already called for a renewable strike from Monday evening for the “shutdown of the country», but the refuellers had not yet formally relayed this call.