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Monday, June 21 (71st day on strike)
 
  • To-day’s 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 Résistance’s 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
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  • 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


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