An inter-union called for a wage strike for Thursday, December 5 in “all companies in the electricity and gas sector”Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned on Friday, November 29, from union sources.
This call is launched while salary negotiations have begun in companies and are not “not up to par” demands of the inter-union, made up of the CGT, CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO, declared this same source. In the electricity and gas industries, general increases are decided at branch level and applied to all companies, which then negotiate a series of individual increases, the sum of which gives the overall increase for employees.
“In general increase, we are at + 0.8% (…). In companies, the four representative union organizations of the sector requested 2.3% in individual measures. Laurent Koessler, head of social dialogue at CFE-Energies, the second largest organization in the sector, which has just under 140,000 employees, told AFP. Gold, “Trade negotiations have begun and we are not at this level”he added.
Loss of income for companies.
“After the inaugural session of negotiations on wage measures until 2025, the first proposal from EDF management is a reduced rate of 1.5%”the intersyndicalist detailed in a brochure. She asks the management to “return to the negotiations proposing much more to reach the 2.3% demanded in individual measures”.
For the same reasons, the inter-union calls for a strike “In EDF, in Enedis and in all companies in the electricity and gas sector, there is not a single company that escapes the strike notice”Mr. Koessler added; Information confirmed by the CGT unions of EDF and GRDF.
The date of December 5 corresponds to a planned meeting of the energy industry body to negotiate other issues, Koessler reported. A day of strike is also planned in the public sector, he highlighted, with demands on purchasing power. “almost identical”.
The strike call officially begins the day before at 9 p.m., for night shifts, as traditionally in the energy sector. This day of strike should not have too visible consequences for the public, Mr. Koessler predicted, and should above all cause a loss of income for companies. But, he warns, “it depends on the result”therefore, mobilization, “and reactions of businessmen” that the movement, renewable, could eventually harden. “The inter-union will meet on the afternoon of the 5th to decide what measures to take”he concluded.
