The government should “put pressure on the management of Total rather than on the strikers”reacts Sandrine Rousseau, EELV deputy for Paris, on franceinfo Wednesday, October 12, while Elisabeth Borne announced on Tuesday the requisition of personnel from the Esso-ExxonMobil depots.
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The strike, initiated at the end of September, was renewed this Wednesday by the CGT and FO at TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobil. The movement for taking inflation into account in wages and a fair distribution of profits has extended to the Donges refinery (Loire-Atlantique).
“I hope this will be the spark that will trigger a general strike movement, says Sandrine Rousseau. I would like something to emerge in the political debate, because there, the anger is such that the government must hear to what extent these liberal policies of breaking unemployment insurance, breaking pensions are no longer bearable today by the French men and women”she added.
These strikes “are justified”, abounded Sandrine Rousseau. It is necessary, believes MP EELV, “radically change our public policies”. “We may have to block things a little bit”, she defends.
Strike at Total ➡️ Strikes are “justified”, for MP EELV from Paris. “The question behind is the sharing of profits between capital and labour. What we are offering in the face of this inflation crisis are bonuses. It’s not up to par!” pic.twitter.com/XN2Oo4Mlb3
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) October 12, 2022
“It’s incredible that all this money goes to the shareholders of Total”, blasted the Green MP. If she were in power, Sandrine Rousseau “would have summoned the CEO of Total for a while”, she says, in order to “submit” to a tax on superprofits and told him “that it would be good to share the added value with the work and not that it gives everything”to shareholders.