Employees have been mobilized since Thursday in nuclear power plants, refineries and ports for a heating round before the national day of interprofessional action of January 31.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
Mobilization in the energy sector against the pension reform project continued, Friday, January 27, after new reductions in electricity production, strictly supervised by RTE (electricity transport network) – the manager of the manager High voltage lines -, which are normally without effect for the general public and above all affect the finances of the company.
“This night, there was a drop in production at the Paluel [nuclear] power station,” the CGT-Energie reported. This action, which affected reactors 3 and 4, caused a drop in production of some 940 megawatt hours (MWH) and seemed to be finished at the start of the morning, according to messages broadcast on the French Electricity website (EDF).
“Intensify the balance of power”
Employees of the energy sector mobilized on Thursday in nuclear power plants, refineries, ports and docks, for a heating round before the national interprofessional action day of January 31 against the reform of pensions.
Totalnergies employees, who had made a notice for two days, finally suspended their movement on Thursday evening, in order to preserve themselves and prepare for the day of the 31st, which will affect all sectors, at the call of all the Unions. One of them, the National Union of Autonomous Unions (UNSA), has identified more than two hundred places of gatherings, as much as for the day of 19.
The agents of the electric and gas industries are on a renewable strike and could carry out new actions on Friday. Thursday, in addition to electrical production reductions and filter dams at the entrance of certain power plants, they carried out a host of so -called “Robin wood” actions, according to the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), to “intensify the report forcibly “. From Lille to Marseille, everywhere in France, they “placed free electricity or gas” schools, HLM and hospitals, granted reduced prices to small businesses and restored the current for users who had been deprived of it.
Questioned on these operations, carried out in parallel with targeted power cuts, the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, was very critical. “This is an initiative which, in the end, amounts to paying the taxpayer,” said the minister on France 2, Friday morning, contesting the “generosity” of the initiative.