- To-days
thought : " The advantage of being
clever, is that one can always play the fool, as
the opposite is totally impossible "
(Woody Allen)
- Today's cartoon
- Creation
of a new site
We are pleased
to announce the birth of Elf Résistances clone. With the kind intention of helping
our colleagues to improve their site, we give
them a few free advices on form (in French, because these remarks
are untranslatable) and content.
The cloning attempt was a success: just like
sheep, the offspring shows signs of age sooner
than the parent.
Our comments about this site will be updated as
often as necessary and will be accessible through
the "honour prize" link.
To-day :
" brutal acts " at the time
of June 17. General Assembly.
- Today's
actions:
- In Pau: The IS
center is still occupied and the network
out of operation, thus studies are at a
halt and communications between
departments and with the subsidiaries are
paralyzed.
Result of the poll: extension of
the strike voted with only twelfe
abstentions.
- The
Syndex report
Detailed
tables
Spreading of these tables is the
source of a Management memo
" Anxiety and
denial "Management regrets
deeply in it that theses tables caused a
strong anxiety for many employees. After
comparison between these tables and
" authentic "
documents distributed to all employees,
here are the results of
calculations :
|
Manpower
before |
Manpower
afterwards |
Difference |
" Authentic
document " |
2820 |
1500 |
1320 |
Syndex
document |
2737 |
1387 |
1350 |
We present
our apologizes to the 30 people for whom
these figures caused a deep emotion.
- Outstanding
point of Trade Unions - Management meetings
Saturday June 19. Presentation of Data
Processing function, by Jacques Duquesne. Some
first analysis and comments :
- Report,
main diagnosis
- Persons in charge and activities are
scattered
- Data processing is difficult to drive.
Lack of performance objectives limits
success analysis to technonlogical
elements. "
But who is responsible for this
situation, if not DSI (Data Processing
Mnagement) board of managers ?
- " Solutions :
a driving function is
created ".
But what did management do up to
this day ?
- " Solutions
- partnerships : long duration
commitments "
With same value as commitments taken
by F.Isoard in 1995 and which have just
been denounced by Management ?
- " Solutions
- partnerships : with very first
rank partners "
As Thominfor who went bankrupt less
than two years after his choice by
Management in the frame of a previous
outsourcing project ?
Running for
results
A relay race
that began on June 10, 7 a.m., is
organized every day (7 a.m. till
7 p.m.) around the C.S.T.J.F. site. It will
continue until the end of the negotiations.
Everyone is welcome to participate ... on
foot, on roller skates, by bike, etc. (no motor
vehicles accepted).
- In Paris: The IS rooms are still occupied.
- Purchase of SAGA
Petroleum by Norsk Hydro
- Our site
selected by:
- From the
press:
- La
République des Pyrénées: (Official
site)
Elf
EP: The Unions at the starting gate
- Sud-Ouest:
(Official
site)
- La
Tribune (June 21, 1999) - Oil
Industry: Norway slams Saga's door in
front of Elf Aquitaine
- La
Dépêche du Midi : (Official
site)
Staff cuts
at Elf: Permanent reporting about
our conflict.
- Alternatives
Economiques / No. 171 - June 1999
Pure capitalism
Under the influence of
instutitional investors, companies take
up new ways to measure their operations
profitability.
- CFDT
Magazine (June 1999)
Dior:
"dolce vita" for the
shareholders.
- Investir (June 12,
1999) publishes an
investigation, analyzed by B. Butori, performed among
350 French companies and showing,
just like similar American studies, that
industrial development creates more value
than cost reduction.
- Liaisons sociales
(June 1999)
Social conflict at Elf, optimism at TOTAL
From a social point of view,
everything has been going wrong at Elf
since a reengineering programme
concerning 1300 jobs in France was
announced. In the meanwhile TOTAL is
about to cut 300 jobs with no social
reactions. The former pays for a policy
of economic recovery, the latter is
rewarded for a development strategy.
- Capital (June 1999)
- International Files
Finance: Pension funds , masters of the
capitalism
These funds, that invest the money of
intending pensioners into stocks, dictate
their rules to the world. Their obsession
is to make as much money as possible.
"When Philippe Jaffré,
the President of Elf Aquitaine, shuts the
Pau technical center in order to reduce
costs, he only tries to please those who
bought Elf shares."
- Challenges: (official
site)
The strike shakes
Philippe Jaffré: Elf verges mutiny
(June 1999)
The personnel is angry against his
methods, the shareholders do not trust
his strategy: Philippe Jaffré, the
President of Elf, is a very lonesome man.
Besides, the scandals in which the
company is involved and the recent
purchase of Petrofina by TOTAL are not
much help.
How Philippe Jaffré lost the
confidence of his employees
- other WEB
sites :
THE DAILY
PAUNET : At the front page, the struggle on
the WEB.
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