- The strike is progressing at the five oil refineries at Total Energies in France. The strike started on 21 September affects the day after day when the car and the asphalt are organized in a total dependency. Seven of the eight refineries were on strike until Friday. But that of ExxonMobil, who does not opt for the employee who is recognised, has at home the police, in prison and with a fine of 10,000 euros, dealt his work with the recession procedures entrusted by the government to the prefect. The strike will be extended tomorrow Tuesday to other sectors and trade unions foresee one of the most significant sequences of recent times. At the height of relapses, citizens want to make it clear that they do not override the right to strike.
The environment gets warmer because the context provokes anger. Let us not forget the figure on which it is based: Total Energies earns a profit of $5.7 billion in the second quarter of this year. With rising prices, including Total Energies and ExxonMobil petrol, the path to meeting basic needs is increasingly demanding.
This is the basis of the struggle of the oil refinery strikers. They advocate a fairer distribution of wealth. Even more justifiable, when we know that parliamentarians in favour of Macron have voted against the super-profit or super-profit multinationals allocating more taxes.
The winter will be cold and more than last year it will not be possible to heat the house sufficiently. On the street, however, the atmosphere is warming, as in France, in many other towns, where the richest are even richer because that is becoming unsustainable. Macron has clarified the color of the answer.
To begin with, it has the repulsion of strikers as a tool for "unlocking conflict." It also proposes the application of Article 49.3 of the Constitution and the dissolution of Parliament. The reform of the retas will be another of the hottest dossiers of this winter and aware of its opposition, threatens both measures.
That is where we are: the reform is about bypassing parliamentary debates; and if the members of the opposition table a motion of censure, it will dismantle the National Assembly. It seems that in conflicting contexts democracy is being hampered by our democratic leaders. It gives you what to think.