Faced with fuel shortage, the building asks the government for emergency measures

While the sector is already suffering from soaring prices for materials and energy, as well as supply tensions for some products, the shortage that is already observed in several regions risks leading to real impossibilities to deliver on site, or even resulting in the outright closure of some of them.

If the right to strike is a constitutional right, it does not prevent work, block or impede traffic and slow down the activity of craftsmen and construction companies.

The FFB therefore asks the government to take the necessary measures as a matter of urgency to restore the normal distribution of fuels and in particular the possibility of using non-road diesel.

"Blocking is not a way to negotiate", says Macron

Emmanuel Macron called Monday, October 10 the management of oil groups and unions to "responsibility", stressing that "the blocking" of fuel depots was "not a way to negotiate".

"I hope that a solution can be found, a rapid conclusion of the negotiations" and "I call on all the companies concerned and the employees to show a spirit of responsibility", declared the Head of State during a trip to Château-Gontier (Mayenne).

"I have asked the Prime Minister and the competent ministers to discuss with the officials concerned, the companies and the unions", he added, considering that the government had "been right to put pressure on all the actors".

Emmanuel Macron insisted that the situation of fuel shortages in almost a third of the service stations in France was "not linked to the war at all and it is not the fault of the government".

"The salary negotiations are all legitimate and it is not for me to judge. But they (the parties) must find a conclusion so that it is not our compatriots who are the victims", according to him.

Because, he continued, "we must not be in a country where we consider that it is up to the government to do everything".

"I hear you say every day: we need social dialogue, we need social dialogue" and "it's a little easy to say that, as soon as there is a problem, it's the fault of the president of the Republic, of the Prime Minister or of the ministers".

"The blockage is not a way to negotiate", he added, while the strike movement for wages at TotalEnergies was renewed until Tuesday and extended to around fifteen motorway service stations. of the Argedis network, a subsidiary of the group, according to union sources.