TotalEnergies accelerates refinery wage talks as fuel supply shrinks

France's TotalEnergies proposes holding wage talks in October instead of mid-November amid a strike by its workers.

“Provided the blockades will end and all labor representatives agree, the company proposes to advance to October the start of mandatory annual wage talks,” it said in a statement.Union representatives earlier told Reuters the strikes staged by the CGT, historically one of France’s more militant unions, would continue. They have disrupted operations at two ExxonMobil sites as well as at two TotalEnergies sites.

France has released strategic reserves and raised imports, Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said. The company’s chief executive officer last week said “the time has come to reward” workers, but the company until then had refused to start negotiations.

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