This movement occurs when France is experiencing a very tense situation when approaching winter, with a large part of the nuclear fleet which is unavailable.
Le Monde With AFP
Several nuclear power plants still knew, Wednesday, October 12, strike movements for the revaluation of wages likely to cause delays in the work prior to the restart of certain reactors – a movement to which the Gravelines power plant is joined on Thursday, the most powerful from Western Europe.
In Gravelines, in the North, employees, on strike at the call of FO and the CGT to claim a 5 % increase in their gross salary, threaten to delay the connection to the network of one of the six reactors 900 MW, which will be arrested this weekend for annual maintenance and must be relaunched before the end of the year.
According to secretary FO of the social and economic committee, Franck Redondo, a delay in the connection would have no consequences on individuals, but would lead to “cuts” in businesses.
“strikes can have an impact on certain maintenance work,” said EDF, without being able immediately to assess whether the calendar returning to the network of these installations would be affected by these movements. If necessary, EDF would be required to communicate it. 2>
very tense situation when approaching winter
Other power plants have experienced strike movements for several weeks, at the call of inter -union, also for obtaining wage revaluations and taking into account inflation.
The central Tricastin (Drôme), Cruas (Ardèche), Bugey (Ain), Cattenom (Moselle) are notably affected by these strikes which delay, for some, the tests prior to their reset to the network after operations of operations Planned maintenance or work in order to solve corrosion problems, while France is experiencing a very tense situation when approaching winter, with a large part of the nuclear fleet which is unavailable.
At the level of the branch, after months of showdown, the employers of the electric and gas industries and the unions reached an agreement subject to signing on Monday, which provides in particular for an increase of 3 , 6 % of the basic national salary out of 2022 and 2023, including 2.3 % for 2023.
Advanceds “notable but far from reaching claims”, especially those of the FNME-CGT, said its federal secretary, Fabrice Coudour. “As it is a branch agreement, there will be business negotiations behind,” he added, specifying the subject of these strike movements.
The CGT asked, in particular, the catch -up of inflation and recalled, by the voice of Mr. Coudour, that he was in August around 6 %. There is “no tendency that emerges for the moment” from the base consultation by the CGT unions of the electric and gas industries, to find out if this agreement will be ratified by the union, concluded Mr. COUDOUR.