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 CGT union members at the Gonfreville, La Mede, Feyzin, Grandpuits
and Donges refineries have been on strike since Friday and have not
accepted a fourth and final pay offer. Another vote will be held
when the next shift arrives at 1 p.m. (1200 GMT / 7:00 a.m. EST).
The CGT said on Friday on its website that members were moving
towards a shutdown. Total has offered a pay rise of up to 1.5
percent. The union has not made its demands public.
The strike affected Gonfreville but three others: the
155,000-barrels per day (bpd) La Mede refinery near Marseille, the
99,000-bpd Grandpuits refinery near Paris and the 231,000-bpd Donges
plant near Nantes had not been producing at full capacity since last
week due to technical issues, the CGT said. Feyzin, near Lyon, was
ramping up after planned maintenance.
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For the morning shift, the CGT said that 68 percent of workers
Gonfreville would strike, 85 percent at La Mede, 55 percent at
Donges and 65 percent at the Grandpuits plant.
Total capacity at the five plants is 943,000 bpd.
(Reporting by Nicholas Vinocur; editing
by Louise Ireland)
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