The employees of GRDF and Enedis, the gas and electricity distribution networks, are respectively invited to stop work Wednesday and Thursday, during a new day of salary negotiations.
Le Monde with AFP
After the signature, on October 17, of a branch agreement in the energy sector, it is now up to companies to negotiate internal measures to compensate for inflation. In EDF, an agreement recently put an end to work stoppages in nuclear power plants, but negotiations trample in GRDF, where the CGT calls for a day of strike on Wednesday, November 2, on the sidelines of a new negotiation meeting, while that in Enedis, an inter-union made up of the CGT, CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO invites employees to disengage Thursday.
The CGT, the first union of the company, claims 4.6 % increase for all for 2022 and 2.3 % in 2023, as well as individual and complementary measures for low wages.
The management of Enedis says it has proposed an increase of 2.3 % for all employees, in addition to the increase in branch wages and individual measures, all representing an “overall budget for increased wages of 7 % “. She adds that a “mid-year review clause was also proposed if inflation was greater than the forecast”.
The CGT judges the offer of GRDF insufficient
Regarding GRDF, only the CGT, the first union organization of the company (46.58 % in the last elections), calls for strike Wednesday November 2.
During two negotiation sessions, on October 25 and 27, “we recovered something, but it is not enough,” Sébastien Raya, CGT central delegate told agency. . GRDF proposed “to add 2.3 %” to the branch agreement “and, we claim 4.6 %,” he said. GRDF management was not reachable immediately.
For Mr. Raya, distribution employees, “whether in Enedis or GRDF, are the poor parents” of these salary negotiations, compared to employees of GRT-Gaz (gas transport network) or Nuclear power plants, which won the case, taking into account the threat that their strikes posed on energy supply this winter.