“Get even more strikers” : before the national day of January 31 against the pension reform, the CGT calls for a strike, from Thursday January 26 and Friday 27, in refineries, power stations but also ports and docks. The union wishes in particular “show that you have mastered the work tool”, explains Fabrice Coudour, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT. Follow our live.
In refineries and ports, blockages. As during the January 19 strike, fuel shipments will be blocked to depots, with the usual watchword : “Nothing goes in, nothing comes out.” The tankers are also planning local actions with port infrastructure employees, with whom joint events could be organized. The CGT federation of Ports and Docks has indeed called for a 24-hour strike on Thursday.
Cuts in production at nuclear power plants and dams. Electricians and gas operators should not cause power cuts for the general public, but production cuts are to be expected from Thursday, warns Fabrice Coudour. Free access, price reductions, switching to reduced hours and power restorations for cut off households are to be expected, in order to counterbalance the criticisms addressed after the announcement of “targeted cuts”in particular against elected officials in favor of the reform.
The end of special diets at EDF. Emmanuel Macron’s reform, which all the unions oppose and which will arrive in Parliament on Monday, would lead to the abolition of special regimes at EDF or Engie (ex-GDF Suez). Their employees, for example, would also be forced, in the long term, to wait until they are 64 to receive their retirement.