“The management had promised to gather trade union organizations to turn the Group Council and EWC into a single structure representing employees at European level” Total wrote in the press release announcing the amendment signed on October 8 with the FECER and IndustriAll* European trade unions and the group’s French organizations (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CGT and FO). Today, November 7, Total’s French Group Council voted its own dissolution.
Indeed, in the preamble to the amendment, the signing parties point out that this agreement a) includes the novelties introduced by Directive 2009/38, b) creates a Strategy Commission in each group branch (Upstream/Holding, Refining-Chemicals, Supply-Marketing) and c) gives new attributions to the Liaison Office.