The pension reform presented Tuesday by the government continues to trigger its share of mobilization announcements. In turn, the CGT Petroleum calls for several days of strikes on January 19 and 26 as well as February 6 to oppose the project and, “if necessary, the cessation” of refining. The Prime Minister launches a “call to responsibility” to the unions.
The call for a strike will lead to “decreases in flow” and “the stoppage of shipments”, Eric Sellini, national coordinator of the union for TotalEnergies, told AFP. On February 6, a “renewable strike” will be ” offered to employees”, indicates the CGT.
“It is through the unity of the employees that we will stop this deeply unjust reform and that we will impose our demands. Let’s meet in the struggles, the tankers will be present! “Wrote the union in a press release.
Eight unions united
After the presentation by the government of its pension reform project on Tuesday, the eight main trade unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU), have called, in an unprecedented unity of action for 12 years, to a day of strikes and demonstrations on January 19.
They hope that it “gives the start of a powerful mobilization on long-term pensions”.
The government for its part “does not project itself there in the idea of a massive mobilization”, government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Wednesday after the Council of Ministers.
“There are union movements every time there are reform projects. (…) There will always be people to consider that it is never the right time to reform. I think it is urgent to save our pension system, ”swept this Thursday Gabriel Attal the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts on RMC.
“There is a right to strike, there is a right to demonstrate”, but “it is also important not to penalize the French”, warned the Prime Minister on the sidelines of a trip to Disneyland Paris while the CGT unions in the oil branch pose the risk of blocking refineries.
The other unions in the oil sector, CFE-CGC, FO and CFDT, relayed the national appeal of January 19.
A vast mobilization of nearly a month, initiated by the CGT on September 27, with the shutdown of refineries and the blocking of deposits, caused major fuel supply difficulties in France.