#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, #UCL AL #320 - Unionism, EDF: Electrical voltages at DTG (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 The management of an EDF engineering unit wants to question the weekly working

time of employees. Despite the employers' maneuvers, the latter refused and the
unions organized anger. ---- To take care of the monitoring and surveillance of
its vast energy park, EDF has the General Technical Division (DTG), a measurement
and expertise unit based mainly in Rhône-Alpes. The 600 or so employees who make
it up have been in conflict with their management for months. ---- It all started
with a legal procedure initiated in 2018 by SUD, the CGT and the Social and
Economic Committee (including FO), around the local working time agreement, which
sets out the national EDF agreement (said of 1999) having set up the thirty-five
hours in the business. This local agreement allows in particular a collective
passage of thirty-two hours per week at the DTG, which constitutes the basis of
social peace: employees consider that in return for their numerous trips
throughout the territory, their life balance is acceptable if they and they can
benefit from the four day week. The legal procedure concerned 60 agents and
agents of four services to whom the management refused collective passage at
thirty-two hours.

But in January 2020, the day before the official decision of the TGI which ruled
in favor of the unions against the management, the latter outright denounced the
local agreement of 1999! The fifteen months of discussions that followed were a
sham negotiation: the local management proposals were on many points totally
incompatible with the national agreement, which had not been denounced.
Impossible for a union worthy of the name to approve such a regressive local
agreement, so the CGT and SUD, majority in the DTG, did not sign it. Throughout
this period and despite the health context, SUD and CGT co-organized staff
general meetings which were able to bring together hundreds of employees.

Reorganization at the center of anger
At the same time, the management announced a complete reorganization of the unit,
breaking up all the work collectives. Currently the services mix technicians,
engineers and experts around the same technical field ; the new project promises
to separate everyone to better open up to subcontracting and consolidate
management focused on profits. Faced with this, the employees are standing firm
and 95% have spoken out against this reorganization.

Finally, the management tried to pass its agreement by referendum (possible since
the Labor law if unions with a representativeness of at least 30% have signed the
agreement) under rather deleterious conditions: past employees by force at
thirty-five hours, executives with fixed-price days who were able to vote on an
agreement that did not concern them, poll organized in August, hierarchical
pressure ... Despite everything, the result of the referendum was final: 65% of
no ! In response, the management calls the agents on the move "thieves" , those
part-time "lazy" and a trade unionist "intellectual terrorist" .

However, on the strength of the last social movement dating from the spring of
2017 (concerning travel expenses), the agents have come back up, always with an
active participation in the AGs, systematically counting more than 100 present. A
strike notice has been filed and resistance is mounting.

Pierre (UCL Grenoble)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?EDF-Tensions-electriques-a-la-DTG
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