Out of the crisis in Total. After a week of strike in its 6 refineries, the oil Group yesterday made a series of formal commitments largely meet the expectations of unions and public authorities.
Result: satisfied with these "significant advances", the CGT, the majority Union in the company, and FO were called yesterday evening the suspension of the strike. The refineries of the Group should resume their activity today, except for Dunkirk. The CGT also waived the strike of solidarity that it should organize in the two refineries French ExxonMobil, Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches) and Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime) and Ineos, Lavera.
What away the specter of a shortage of gasoline and diesel fuel began to crab-wise. 2,600 Gas stations Elf and Total of France, 249 were lacking at least one fuel yesterday morning. A threat taken seriously at the top of the State. For Nicolas Sarkozy, ask risk paralysis of the country, as in 1968. Especially in regional elections three weeks! The President of the Republic was therefore involved itself in the social conflict. After having summoned the Council of Total President Thierry Desmarest, Monday, he received yesterday morning its operational pattern, Christophe de Margerie.
It is therefore under the double pressure of trade unions and the State that Total leaders resumed yesterday morning at the headquarters of the defence talks halted Sunday night. On the table, a proposal by 8 points. The refinery at Dunkirk, in the heart of the conflict, will be entrenched. But Total is committed not to do a full feature on the site so far: it should be transformed into deposit, so to continue to employ staff - even if it is obviously less than 380 current employees. The Group should also participate in the re-industrialization of the site. These measures should be detailed on 8 March, when the Enterprise Committee of Total spent on the situation of Dunkirk.
A lack of visibility
Above all, Total has given a lack of visibility on the evolution of its refining tool. No question of sacrifice of new French refineries to reduce overcapacity. Once settled the case of Dunkirk, the Group promises to keep its five other refineries in France for at least five years. No "reduction ability, closure" or sale of refinery over this period, said the CGT of the Group Coordinator, Charles Foulard. He is also a plan of investment in the next five years. "
For their part, Governments have agreed to another claim of the strikers: the holding of a national round table for understanding the future of France refining. "The State takes the initiative in the second quarter of a round table on energy in our country", said Christian Estrosi, Minister of industry.
Despite these commitments, Total continues to want to ease in refining, a profession considered too unprofitable in the long term, at least in Europe. "Christophe de Margerie statements on its willingness to reduce the capacity of refining of the Group of 500,000 barrels per day between 2007 and 2011 remain valid," stated yesterday at the headquarters. Therefore, after Dunkirk, it is abroad that the group, blocked by France, may close or sell assets. The refinery of Lindsey, in Britain, could be assigned in the short term, according to industrial sources cited by Reuters.
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