"To Attack the Agent Tariff Is to Try to Make Us Look Like Wealthy": 80% of Strikers Expected in the Energy Sector on 15 September
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Inter-union service for employees (CGT, CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO) calls on the agents to mobilise on Tuesday against a possible revision of the agent tariff from which they benefit, which allows them to pay only a small part of the electricity and gas bills.
Tomorrow, 300,000 electricians, gas companies and energy pensioners could paralyze the country to defend their preferential tariff. This scheme costs EDF 700 million euros a year and deprives the state of 230...
This historical advantage granted to the employees and pensioners of the EDF and the Engie is in the collimator of the government. To defend this reduction of their gas and electricity bills, the unions call for the strike on Tuesday 15 September.
The preferential tariff for electricians and gas producers, which has been frozen since 1951, costs EDF 700 million euros a year. On 15 September 2026, 300 000 people are mobilising against the reform envisaged by the government following a notice from the Court of Auditors. Beyond the social conflict, it is the competitiveness of the French energy sector and security of supply that are being questioned. The article Energy: end of the preferenti…
While the Court of Auditors calls on the electricity and gas industries to plan the preferential tariffs applied to agents, the four representative unions call for a mobilization on 15 September. For Fabrice Coudour, Secretary General of the CGT-FNME, it is a model of worker management that is attacked.
The government will follow this recommendation of the Court of Auditors: to increase taxation on the very preferential tariffs granted to employees and pensioners in the electricity and gas sectors. They pay only 2% of the price charged to households s. This advantage is part of the remuneration and is therefore taxable. This is where things could change. According to our information, the government does not intend to abolish this advantage, but…
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