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The CGT negotiators left around 2 a.m. this Friday the first negotiations between the unions and the management of TotalEnergies, dissatisfied with the proposals for wage increases made by the oil group in an attempt to end the strike and end fuel shortage. “The proposals that are on the table are largely insufficient,” said Alexis Antonioli, a CGT negotiator, denouncing a “masquerade”, before leaving the group’s headquarters at La Défense to go to sleep. But inside remained the negotiators of two reformist and majority unions, CFE-CGC and CFDT, which could, according to the CGT negotiators, sign an agreement with management… as was the case at ExxonMobil.
Faced with requisitions drawn by the government to counter the strike in the oil industry, the CGT decided on Thursday, with FO, Solidaires, FSU as well as youth movements, to organize a day of interprofessional “mobilization and strike” on Tuesday, despite the dissatisfaction of part of the public.
This day of action “for the increase in wages and the defense of the right to strike”, will concern “refineries, the food industry, nurseries, public transport, energy and nuclear, (…) education , health, trade…”, listed Catherine Perret, confederal secretary of the CGT at the end of an inter-union meeting at the headquarters of the central in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The final showdown is on. On Thursday, the House Inquiry Committee into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Storming voted to subpoena Donald Trump. Failing to defer to a congressional citation is a federal offense, but the clock is ticking in Donald Trump’s favor. Legal experts say the issue is unlikely to be resolved before the November 8 midterms. If the Republicans, who are clearly favored, regain a majority in the House, they will disband the committee. Donald Trump’s political troubles would then be over, but the former president would remain under threat from the vast, separate Justice Department investigation.