An inter-union called for a strike for wages on Thursday, December 5 in “all companies in the electricity and gas sector”Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned on Friday, November 29, from union sources.
This call is launched while salary negotiations have started in companies and are not “not up to standard” demands of the inter-union, made up of the CGT, CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO, declared this same source. In the electricity and gas industries sector, general increases are decided at branch level and apply to all companies, which then negotiate a range of individual increases, the addition of the two giving the overall increase. for employees.
“In general increase, we are at + 0.8% (…). In companies, all of the four trade union organizations representing the sector requested 2.3% in individual measures. declared to AFP Laurent Koessler, responsible for social dialogue at CFE-Energies, the second largest organization in the sector, which has just under 140,000 employees. Gold, “business negotiations have started and we are not at this level”he added.
Loss of earnings for businesses
“Following the opening session of negotiations on 2025 salary measures, the first proposal from EDF management is a low rate of 1.5%”detailed the inter-union in a leaflet. She asks the management to “return to negotiations by proposing much more to meet the 2.3% claimed on individual measures”.
For the same reasons, the inter-union calls for a strike “at EDF, at Enedis and across all companies in the electricity and gas sector, so there is not a single company that escapes the strike notice”added Mr. Koessler; information confirmed by the CGT unions of EDF and GRDF.
The date of December 5 corresponds to a planned meeting of the energy industry body to negotiate other issues, Koessler reported. A day of strike in the public service is also planned, he stressed, with demands on purchasing power “nearly identical”.
The call for strike officially begins the day before at 9 p.m., for night shifts, as traditionally in the energy sector. This day of strike should not have too visible consequences for the public, predicted Mr. Koessler, and should above all result in a loss of earnings for companies. But, he warns, “it depends on the result”therefore mobilization, “and reactions from employers” that the movement, renewable, could eventually harden. “The inter-union will meet on the evening of the 5th to decide what action to take”he concluded.
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