In Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine, the strike continues despite threats of requisitions made by the Prime Minister before the National Assembly.
The strike at the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery in Port-Jérôme was unanimously renewed this morning, despite the Prime Minister’s threat the day before to requisition the oil group’s deposits.
In Le Havre, Total announces that the Normandy refinery is also continuing the strike movement.
About fifty striking employees voted by show of hands to continue the strike, at the foot of the factory, where the pallets are burning and without the presence of police around, according to an AFP reporter on the spot.
“You are all targeted, the government wants to force us to come to work, we will fight against this, it is clearly a challenge to the right to strike. We are attached head-on to our right to strike“, Christophe Aubert, central union representative of the CGT, declared before the strikers, recalling that they were about to“ attack ”their“ 23rd day of strike ”.A historical movement“, He congratulates himself.
According to the CGT, on Wednesday at 6 o’clock 45 strikers out of the hundred scheduled for the morning shift were counted and in the shipping department 6 employees out of ten are on strike normally on duty.
“We have heard from yesterday (Tuesday) that we will be requisitioned immediately but we have no documents, we cannot speculate on things that we do not yet have, if it should betray the right to strike we will react by going to court with a summary“Said for his part Reynald Prevost, FO coordinator.
During the government interrogation session at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Premier Elisabeth Borne announced the requisition of personnel to release the fuel depots of the Esso-ExxonMobil group where a wage agreement was concluded by two unions on Monday. , majority at group level but not in its refineries.
Source: AFP
