All group unions are calling on strike Thursday to request wage increases, improving working conditions and recruitments. The objective of “zero metro, zero RER” could “very well be fulfilled”, warns the Unsa-Ratp.
Le Monde with AFP
three days before a strike movement at the Autonomous Régie des Transports Parisiens (RATP) for the increase in wages and the improvement of working conditions, the management of the company provided, Monday, November 7, Traffic “very strongly disturbed” Thursday in the metro as well as on lines A and B of the RER, partially managed by the RATP.
Traffic should also be disrupted on the bus and tram network; The RATP invites, in a press release , “all travelers who have the opportunity to favor telework or postpone their trips”. The group will publish, late Tuesday afternoon, a first estimate of the transport plan with the frequency of RERs and the number of metro lines closed or operating only during peak hours.
All of the group’s union organizations (CGT, FO, UNSA, the base and solidarity) call for the strike on Thursday, a long-term weekend of November 11, to request wage increases, the ‘Improvement of working conditions and recruitments. The objective of “zero metro, zero RER” could “very well be fulfilled”, warns the secretary general of the UNSA-RATP, AROLE LAMASSE.
Degradation of the service since the start of the school year
“There will be a lot of closed lines,” says Bastien Berthier, secretary of the Fo-RATP traction pole, who represents 72 % of metro drivers. “Management had a means of avoiding the conflict, they have had our demands since October 7 and receive us a month later to tell us that they do not have a mandate to negotiate,” said Berthier at the exit of ‘A meeting with management.
The probable future boss of the RATP, Jean Castex, must be auditioned Tuesday and Wednesday in the Senate and the National Assembly for his appointment at the head of the group. The former Prime Minister will have a lot to do to restore social dialogue in a company already affected by strong tensions on his bus network, where the offer is amputated by 25 % due to a chronic sub-effective and the multiplication of localized strikes.
Sunday, the RATP was questioned by Valérie Pécresse, president of the Ile-de-France Mobilités regional transport authority, for the degradation of the service since the start of the school year on certain metro lines “in unacceptable proportions” .