Cégétistes block access to the Total Energies refinery in Donges, in Loire-Atlantique, on March 17, 2023 (AFP / LOIC VENANCE)
Employees of the TotalEnergies refinery in Donges (Loire-Atlantique) have decided to continue their strike against the government’s pension reform, which began on March 7, for an additional week, we learned from the unions on Friday.
The employees decided to “continue the movement until Friday March 24. Since March 7 already, no more drop of fuel has come out of the Donges refinery”, declared Fabien Privé Saint-Lanne, CGT union representative, to the exit from a general meeting which brought together dozens of employees.
“The SFDM, the oil depot adjacent to the refinery, has also been on renewable strike since yesterday (…) so clearly, the mobilization is increasing and the movement is hardening”, continued Mr. Privé Saint-Lanne.
The representative of the CGT-CFDT-FO inter-union called on President Macron to withdraw “this villainous law after the denial of democracy that the use of 49-3 constituted”, ensuring that “the employees of this country in their together have no choice but to fight and fight, otherwise tomorrow it will be working time, paid holidays and the right to strike which will undoubtedly be called into question”.
“I think that the 49.3 has reinvigorated the troops a little bit. Unfortunately, this use also crystallizes the anger, the tensions”, for his part analyzed Adrien Vaugrenard, CFDT union representative, after the general assembly.
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