The circulation of metros and RERs in Ile-de-France was very disrupted on Thursday by a strike movement centered on issues of remuneration and working conditions. On the other hand, the call for the mobilization of the CGT in favor of wage increases attracted few people: 30,000 people, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
by Bertrand Bissuel
Little visible in the street, but significant in the Ile -de -France public transport. The union mobilizations orchestrated, Thursday, November 10, on several fronts experienced various fortunes. The national call launched by the CGT to defend “wages, social minima, scholarships and pensions” has attracted few people. On the other hand, the work stoppages at the RATP have greatly disrupted traffic on several metro and RER lines, without causing a significant rush – many users having taken their arrangements to move differently or stay at home.
Since the beginning of fall, this is the fourth time that the CGT has urged the population to beat the pavement in order to obtain wage increases. Some 30,400 people responded to the entire territory, according to the Ministry of the Interior. They were “more than 100,000”, objects Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the union. In a press release, the management of the power plant insists that, “in recent months”, there has been “rarely there” so much “movements within companies to claim an improvement in pay sheets.
In the capital, there were 2,400 to survey the streets between the Place de la République and the Garnier Opera, according to the official count. In Marseille, the police prefecture advances the figure of 1,500 demonstrators. In Toulouse, the balance sheet is identical, according to the CGT. Participation is therefore weak, even if it is twice as high as on October 27, and in very clear decline compared to the two national days of interprofessional action which had taken place on September 29 and October 18 (around 110,000 to 120,000 people on the street, for all of France, depending on the state services). The Ministry of the Interior specifies that sixteen high schools (including eight in Ile-de-France) were targeted by “blocking operations”, Thursday.
It is necessary to “maintain a pressure”
In certain cities, the CGT was followed by regional structures of the FSU and Solidaires, as well as by movements representing the youth (high school voice, UNEF, etc.) and by political parties. In Paris, Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the PCF, came to support in a spectacular way – by exploding a railway firecracker with the help of a railway worker.
Force Ouvrière, who had joined the day of action of October 18, spent his turn, this time, the secretary general of the power plant, Frédéric Souillot, believing that the repetition of these initiatives “jump -moutons “are counterproductive and” use [(nt] troops “.
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