Strike day, live: schools blocked all over France; the CGT meets at 6 p.m. to decide on the continuation of the movement in the refineries – Le Monde

The CGT representatives of the oil sites of TotalEnergies, on strike for three weeks and again on Tuesday, will meet at 6 p.m. to determine the follow-up to be given to their movement of wage demands, learned Agence France-Presse (AFP) from their responsible. “We will see the rest, if we continue, or not, or partially. It will depend in particular on the day today, it restores momentum and there is always this feeling of anger. We’ll see if that’s enough to push the movement forward. And, ultimately, it is the employees who will vote,” said the CGT coordinator for the group, Eric Sellini, to AFP. same sites Tuesday, national day of interprofessional action, which overflowed in particular in a strike in transport. It again concerned the TotalEnergies sites in Normandy, Donges, La Mède, Feyzin (the depot, the refinery being shut down for technical reasons) and Flandres (depot). Of the total French infrastructure, four out of seven refineries were concerned , for their refining and/or deposit operations. The other three refineries in the country, operated by Esso-ExxonMobil and the Petroineos group, are operating. Depots not linked to refineries, such as that of Grandpuits being transformed into a biorefinery, were also on strike. “All Total sites remain mobilized,” said Thierry Defresne, CGT secretary of the European committee in Gonfreville, the Normandy refinery site. “The agreement with the CFDT and CFE-CGC has done some harm, but the right to strike continues and the strikers still have demands,” he said. According to TotalEnergies, the six sites affected by the strike count for a little more than 3,400 people on permanent contracts. The company estimates the number of strikers present on these sites at time T at around 90 employees. Employees actually work in shifts and shifts. For the Feyzin site alone, the CGT claims around a hundred strikers, according to its local representative, Pedro Afonso, for whom “the determination is intact”.