The federations energy CGT, CFE-CGC and FO take again the alarm. They call again Friday, April 22, hours before the meeting of the EDF Board of Directors, the postponement of the Hinkley Point project of construction of two EPR reactors in the UK. “The postponement of the British Hinkley Point nuclear project is the condition for the success of this project,” write the three federations in a joint statement, adding that it is “because they believe in the future of nuclear and of the French nuclear industry “they demand the postponement. For them, “and as announced in the state”, the project of 23 billion euros “is wearing very large industrial and financial risk on EDF and the entire French nuclear industry.”
the three federations that had sent last week an open letter to President Francois Hollande to alert him to the situation of the electrician, “on the verge of bankruptcy”, put forward several points to explain their position : an industrial organization “with the English interface (which) complicates the process,” the necessary simplification of the current EPR, the “restart command of the French industrial sector, including Areva” or “integration feedback from the entire construction of an EPR “. “He begs and take the time to start on a sound basis, in finally pushing employees” say FNME-CGT, CFE-CGC and FO Energies Energy and Mines. The three federations have refused to surrender Friday morning in a meeting on the controversial project proposed by management, meeting they call a “parody of dialogue” to which the CFDT will participate.
Thursday the CGT elected, CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO of the central Committee (CEC) officially asked EDF, and unanimously, to be “prior consultation” on the proposed Hinkley Point, threatening to go justice fault to be heard. The EDF Board should consider Friday afternoon the financial trajectory of the electrician, owned nearly 85% by the state.
(with AFP)
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