The unions indicate that the salary negotiations which have started in the companies are not “not up to standard” demands.
An inter-union called for a strike for wages on Thursday, December 5 in “all companies in the electricity and gas sector”we learned Friday from union sources. This call comes at a time when salary negotiations have started in companies and are not “not up to standard” demands of the inter-union (CGT/CFE-CGC/CFDT/FO), indicated a union 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. employees. “In general increase, we are at +0.8% (…). In companies, all 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 that level”he added.
Same day as civil service
“Following the opening session of the negotiation on 2025 salary measures, the first proposal from EDF management is a low rate of 1.5%”indicated 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 of EDF and the CGT of GRDF.
The date of December 5 corresponds to a planned meeting of the energy sector body to negotiate other subjects, indicated Mr. Koessler. This day happens to be “the same day” that the strike day in the public service, he underlined, with demands on purchasing power “nearly identical”. The call for strike officially begins the day before at 9:00 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.
