It was over a disagreement that the parties parted ways this Thursday afternoon. EDF-PEI and the FE-CGTG “have recorded the end of negotiations without having managed to reach an agreement on the calculation of paid leave”, indicates the management of the company, in a press release. The last point of disagreement, which blocks the signing of a protocol to end the conflict, remains the method of calculating paid leave. The strike that began in mid-September continues.
EDF-PEI (Island Energy Production) announces in a press release, this Thursday afternoon (November 14, 2024), that at 3:00 p.m. negotiations with the Energy Federation (FE-CGTG) were broken off.
The parties have still not reached an agreement on the method of calculating paid leave, each sticking to its positions. This is the last blocking point, before the signing of an end-of-conflict protocol.
The question remains the same on both sides: what is the best counting method? The union behind the strike that began in mid-September in Guadeloupe claims that it is the one provided for by the Labor Code.
The management of EDF-PEI considers and intends to prove that it is its own; judgments of the Court of Cassation in support. This leave management, implemented at the Pointe Jarry Centrale, is also consistent with that applied to all employees of the EDF group.
This point had already been settled and was the subject of article 13 of the protocol signed on February 17, 2023, after 61 days of strike. But, presumably, the parties do not have the same reading of it.
However, we thought the social partners were on the path to resolving their dispute.
Today's meeting was the second of the week, after yesterday's meeting, under the facilitation of the Directorate of Economy, Employment, Labor and Solidarity (DEETS).
Face à Jimmy Thememaque, sgeneral secretary of the FE-CGTG and Nathanaël Vérin, union delegate of the FE-CGTG,he company was represented by its president Frédéric Maillard who, called many times to come to the archipelago, agreed to make the trip, and the director of the Baie-Mahaultienne power station, Gaëlle Paygambar.
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Upstream, a meeting, called “constructive” by the union, took place in Paris on November 7. Both parties had not seen each other again to negotiate since October 18.
Back in Guadeloupe, it was only a matter of finalizing the discussions.
This is clearly not the case.
At the same time, we learned that the CGTR of EDF-PEI of Port-Est, on Reunion Island, has filed a strike notice. On site, employees affiliated to this union will go on strike on November 18, from 10 p.m.; this, for an unlimited period.
