The intersyndictale calls for a day of mobilization Wednesday. She blames the government to promote competition. To limit the rise in energy bills, the state compels the company to sell its nuclear power.
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The Intersyndical of the Electricity Group of France (EDF) won a first force of force against the project “Hercules” of management and the government. In 2021, it obtained the suspense of this plan synonymous, according to her, of a future dismantling of the company – whose state remains the main shareholder. But here it is, now struggling with another concern.
Wednesday, January 26, the four representative unions (CGT, CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO) all call for a strike to say “Stop to SACCAGE OF EDF and the public service”. Here, the challenge seeks the measures planned by the Government to contain the rise in the “blue tariff” of electricity, to which the majority of French households have subscribed. It will be the second day of strike for some employees, in the aftermath of the organized mobilization, Tuesday, January 25, by the CGT for an “immediate revaluation of wages and pensions” of minors and energeticians.
At the end of September 2021, the Executive had promised to limit to + 4% in February, the regulated price of electricity sales. To achieve this, he already had to do without the tax revenues of the domestic tax on the final electric consumption.
“EDF continues to bring the industrial risks”
At three months of the presidential election, the prices of the electricity market increased more than expected, the state has decided on an additional measure. It always excludes to lower another tax, VAT, but it has planned to constrain EDF to brader even more nuclear power for the benefit of competing suppliers – which, in theory, will then be supposed to pass on the invoice to households. It will be 120 terawattles (TWh) this year, instead of 100 TWh in previous years, announced the government on January 13, although it has not yet published decree or decree.
“This constitutes a spoliation and an unacceptable fragility of Electricity of France, public operator”, denounce the unions in a letter addressed on Tuesday, in Bruno the Mayor, Minister of Economy, Finance and Recovery. In a previous letter, on January 14, the union representatives sitting on the company’s board of directors asked “to the shareholder state of fully compensating for the cost of provisional support requested from EDF. EDF does not have, In its social object, the mission of relaxing a politically sensitive subject time to sprout a presidential election “.
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