These negotiations were originally scheduled for November. Since the start of the strike, ten days ago, the CGT has been demanding a 10% increase in wages.
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A response to the outstretched hand of the CGT. TotalEnergies agreed, Sunday, October 9, to advance its annual negotiations on wages, provided that the blockages end in refineries and fuel depots. Negotiations were originally scheduled for November 15. They “will make it possible to define how employees will be able to benefit, before the end of the year, from the exceptional results generated by TotalEnergies, while also taking into account inflation for the year 2022”assures the French energy giant, which made $ 10.6 billion in profits in the first half of 2022.
Since the start of the strike, the CGT has been demanding a 10% increase in wages, including 7% for inflation and 3% for the sharing of wealth. The movement was launched ten days ago in the refineries and fuel depots of TotalEnergies and the American group Esso-ExxonMobil. Pending an exchange scheduled for Monday with management, the strike was renewed on Sunday at 2 p.m.
On Saturday, the CGT of TotalEnergies had taken a first step to negotiate. In an open letter to the CEO of the group, Patrick Pouyanné, the union agreed to put aside its demands in terms of hiring and investments to open negotiations on wages only, but this from Monday.
The management, it, underlined Sunday that it had already advanced to November the obligatory annual negotiations (NAO) without “wait for January 2023 as is usually the case”and that it is therefore taking a further step by agreeing to negotiate as of October.
The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, welcomed the announcement by TotalEnergies. “The French must not suffer any more the consequences of a social movement. This conflict must end”she said.