A new strike is scheduled for Monday at Disneyland Paris, over wages and working conditions. For its part, TotalEnergies announced an increase for its employees, in order to avoid another social movement.
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The management’s proposals, such as the payment of a value-sharing bonus, the revaluation of remuneration or even double paid Sundays, fail to calm the unions. VSIt is the sixth time in just over a month that the CGT and Unsa have called on Disneyland Paris employees to mobilize on Monday June 19. The park and hotels will remain open, but activities, shows and parades will be cancelled.
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To avoid a similar conflict, the CEO of TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyanné announced on Sunday June 18 a 2% increase for the group’s employees in France. He thus wishes “prevention rather than cureand avoid a new social movement like the one that affected its refineries for a month last fall, and which blocked part of the country.
But in reality, some of the 35,000 TotalEnergies employees will receive this summer a down payment on the planned increase at the end of the year. As inflation remains high, at more than 5%, but should decelerate at the end of the year, TotalEnergies wants to support its employees with this advance.
“Prevention rather than cure”
In this context of still high prices, many business leaders also fear that after the conflict over pensions, tensions will crystallize on remuneration. Especially that the unions warn: the inter-union they managed to form around pensions, they now want to use it to obtain wage increases. All the major unions met at the end of last week and agreed that their priority was to obtain more purchasing power for workers. They also mentioned the idea of a big event at the start of the school year on this theme.
But according to Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, the president of Medef on the departure, employers have instead done the job and increased the salaries of their teams in recent months. And if thehe boss of bosses recognizes that large companies have been more generous than SMEs, he Nevertheless, if we refer to a study by the management of the Ministry of Labor published on Friday June 16, the workers’ basic monthly salary has increased significantly in recent months. However, it still lags behind inflation, withec on average 1% behind the prices.