In companies in the energy sector, the judicialization of social conflicts extends in favor of the movements requiring salary increases.
by Aline Leclerc
It’s a night vision camera. Of the one that can be installed in your garden to monitor the fauna. Elected officials from GRDF staff discovered it in July in a tunnel which connects the registered office of the gas distributor, rue Condorcet in Paris, to the Ile-de-France network, in rue Pétrelle Voisine. And this, two days after strikers borrowed this tunnel to make their request for a salary increase.
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The CGT Energie Paris filed a complaint against X on July 27, according to his lawyer, for violation of the right to image and respect for privacy. The exploitation of the camera memory card would leave no doubt: it accuses a GRDF frame of having installed it there in the aftermath of the event, apart from any legal framework.
Four months later, before the GRDF establishment on avenue de Trudaine in Paris, the incident is presented by Cédric Liechti, secretary general of CGT-Energie Paris, as one of the signs of “criminalization Union at levels never reached “in energy companies. “Management has decided to trap the strikers. This kind of barbouzeries is unheard of!”, He said. The strike agents around him are in intervention clothes, helmet and firefighter jacket, to recall the dangerousness of their profession. He carries a black sweatshirt, flocked in red with an inscription which speaks volumes about the state of relations between the management of the group and the CGT-Energie: “Collective Trud-Haine”.
insulting tags
Questioned on the “camera” incident of the summer, GRDF replied that it is its responsibility “to secure” access to its sites. The company also criticizes that a “minority” on strike has undermined the gas and delayed interventions security chain, depriving gas 1,500 households at the end of November.
Because the conflict persists while management concluded an agreement on wages, November 18, with the CFDT, the CFE-Energie and FO, the majority of them (52 %). The CGT (48 % of votes) requests that it be renegotiated, claiming 4.6 % increase for all, rather than 2.3 % for all and 2.2 % individual. Calling for respect for “democracy”, the signatory unions have denounced “moral and physical pressures”, in particular insulting tags, on work sites.
An emblematic atmosphere of that which surrounded the requests for wage revaluations in companies in the electric and gas industries (IEG) since spring. In March and April, the CRS intervened on several occasions on strike stakes by RTE maintenance agents (manager of the electricity transport network) in Orleans (Loiret), Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) and Saumur (Maine- et-Loire).
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