1^st poll. General meeting voted almost unanimously for following trade unions representatives proposal :

" To begin a real negotiations process allowing management to present their position and trade unions representatives to defend all alternative measures in order to gain renunciation of outsourcings and delocalizations and to negotiate conflict issue at the earliest. "

2^nd poll. Strikers general assembly voted strike renewal unanimously minus 12 abstentions.

Syndex report

Lack of true benchmarking study on EEP rates and sizing.
Management data not allowing to measure impact of structural elements on EEP financial situation.
Upstream economic performances quite creditable compared to competitors.
Detailed tables of manpower forecasts issued by Reconception-Resizing group.
Nota : tables making up was rectified.

Running for employment .The latest photos on line...... ! !

Running for results

During the discussions Unions/Management, a race is organized since June, 10, around ELF premises at the CSTJF. The race takes place daily from 7 a m to 7 p m. A night race and a lunch are scheduled on Monday, June, 14.

Runners may be on foot, rollers, bicycle...any other non-motor item... This is outside ELF premises, hence it is open to anybody. The race will end with the discussions.

Flash : picnic on Friday June 18. In front of CSTJF entrance with participation of Legrand establishment strikers.

In Paris : The computer center is still down and occupied.

From a decision of the meeting of June, 7, the strikers distributed on June, 10, about 50,000 tracts explaining the strike. The distribution during two hours at the subway entrance met numerous evidences of interest, and sympathy. Read the text which was distributed.

In Court : the judgment of Nanterre on June, 6 :

The Unions called upon the untimely production of documents supporting the contested " Performance project ". ELF EP had to pay FF 10,000 (about $1,500) to the Unions.

• June 17, 19899 leaflet
  
  
• June 14, 1999 leaflet
  
  

• La République des Pyrénées: (Official site)
  Jean Féger " oilmen " meet Legrand employees. Strikers shoulder to shoulder
  Solidarity meeting yesterday in front of Jean Féger.
  Disagreement statement ( on the economic foundation of " Performance " study)
  
  
• Sud-Ouest: (Official site)
  Elf Jean Féger : staff should settle
  Staff general meeting should to-day express their decision about negotiations development and decisions to take now.
  
  
• La Croix (June 15, 1999)
  Pope defends work value facing market laws.
  
  
• L'humanité Hebdo (June 12) : (Official Site)
  Philippe Jaffré : the Manager Dictator
  Elf group chairman symbolizes everything which may not last any more in french industrial world. He pays it by an unprecedented struggle against a job cuts plan threatening 2820 employments. Not less.
  
  
• La Dépêche du Midi : (Official site)
  Elf : jobs fired : living file of our struggle.
  
  
• Alternatives Economiques / No. 171 - June 1999
  Pure capitalism
  Under the influence of instutitional investors, companies take up new ways to measure their operations profitability.
  
  
• Les Echos / June 14, 1999
  Shares : growth rather than cost reduction
  From 1998 to 1999, companies whose trading results growth come with an increase of their turnover put up a better performance than those who get an improvement of their economy of operation thanks to better cost control.
  
  
• Yahoo ! : (Official site)
  Market says Elf setback on Saga is not so important but this one is always preferd by the latter employees. (June 11. 1999)
  Saga board of directors logically assessed that Norsk Hydro offer was the best for the company, as employees representatives prefered Elf offer. Norsk Hydro, who intends to break up Saga and to retrocede 25% of its assets to Statoil, indeed foresees far more positions cuts than the french group. Moreover, Saga trade unions called for a strike on Thursday June 17.
  
  
• Liaisons sociales (June 1999)
  Social storm in Elf, set fair in Total
  Social climate. Nothing has been going well any more in Elf, since the notification of a social plan concerning 1300 jobs in France. As their competitor Total is about to suppress 300 working positions, without stir.The former bears the cost of a policy which privileged company financial recovery, as the latter takes advantage of his growth strategy.
  
  
• Capital (June 1999)
  International file. Finance : pension funds, masters of capitalism.
  These funds, which place savings of future pensioners in companies assets, impose their law to the whole world. Their obsession : to earn maximum money.
  Abstract : " When Philippe Jaffré, Elf boss, closes, to save money, his Pau research centre, it is to please those who bought his shares ".
  
  
• Challenges : (Official site)
  Strike movement unstabilizes Philippe Jaffré : Elf on the verge of mutiny (June 1999)
  Employees are angry with his methods, shareholders question his strategy : at Elf head, Philippe Jaffré is well alone. Scandals linked to the oil group and recent Total poker stroke did not help his business.
  How Jaffré lost his troop confidence.