ExxonMobil. The strikers want to show “a united front to make management bend”

Heavy goods vehicle traffic remains very disrupted at the entrances to the site. While the majority of accesses have been blocked from the arrival of trucks within the company since Thursday evening and the filter barriers remain in place at gate A, a large gathering was organized at this same entrance to the ExxonMobil site from Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine (Seine-Maritime), Friday June 21, 2024at the call of the inter-union FO, CGT, CFDT, CFE-CGC.

The objective: to show “as united a front as possible to make management bend”, a moment of unity that the unions wanted to share with ExxonMobil employees but also with all the companies involved and the population, threatened to be impacted by the elimination of 647 jobs announced on the site.

ExxonMobil management described as ‘rigid and inflexible’

Currently, the strike continues and has even hardened. Faced with “rigid and inflexible” management, describes Alan Droniou, CFDT ExxonMobil coordinator, the movement is not about to stop. From Saturday morning, and in the days to come, new blockages are planned. By their “pressure” actions on traffic, which threaten now directly the entire oil sectortrade union organizations are trying to influence the PES negotiation timetable.

Since the last meeting, Tuesday June 18which ended early with the departure of employee representatives, they request the setting of new intermediate negotiation dates before Tuesday July 2, next and possible final negotiation meeting. “This was officially refused to us last night,” breathes François Lebreton.

And this while “many points” have not yet been addressed, concerning both financial measures and support and job retention systems. “We still have large files that should be processed over more than a day,” he comments. Materially, we do not see how we can move forward, not to mention that at the employee level, there is a very high expectation regarding the supra-conventional part since there will be layoffs, we know that well. , and there are likely to be many of them. »

Consequently, all other instances are stopped. “We decided to boycott all CSEC, CSE, CSSCT meetings, as long as there were no new PSE negotiation dates,” continues the console operator at the PE (chemistry) unit. A request for an injunction should be sent Tuesday June 25 to the regional directorate of the economy, employment, labor and solidarity, in order to “force the management to respect its legal obligations”, informs the CGE-CGC.

A call for a strike extended to all ExxonMobil staff was launched by the same union organization for Thursday June 27“for all staff, with the sole objective of protecting our colleagues and if that is not enough, we will see how we can move towards other methods again,” warns François Remont, coordinator.

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