"The CGT and CFDT trade unions call for the renewal of the movement until next Friday. The +democratization+ put in place by the Borne-Macron duo does not make us retreat, does not undermine our determination, so the strike movement continues, "announced Fabien Privé Saint-Lanne, CGT union delegate (majority), at the end of the weekly general assembly.
"We have suffered requisitions, threats against our subcontracting colleagues, job blackmail, investment blackmail. Nothing undermines the determination of the strikers," continued Mr. Privé Saint-Lanne, a week after the requisition of striking employees on this site.
FO's position was slightly different from that of the CGT and CFDT at the end of the general meeting.
This union is only calling for a strike until Wednesday, April 5, to demand answers after the meeting between Elisabeth Borne and the inter-union.
"We want to have a clear visual Wednesday evening, at the end of the meeting, but the mobilization, the determination within our team does not weaken, quite the contrary," said Marin Guillotin, FO union representative at the refinery.
Marin Guillotin had brought with him the debris of a de-encirclement grenade and a tear gas canister declaring: "it is not with things like this that we will allow dialogue".
"It is up to the government to take very clearly its responsibilities, that is to say to withdraw the text (on the pension reform, editor's note), and then perhaps recreate a link with the trade unions," added Guillotin.
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