A tram stopped at 10 a.m., eleven bus lines without any traffic and 45 others very disrupted. This Tuesday, on the occasion of a second day of strike in a week at Tisséo, the public transport network of Toulouse has been idling, even if, this time, the automatic metro was spared.
A hundred agents of the management also demonstrated under the windows of the Capitol for part of the morning. The social conflict, which ignited within the framework of the obligatory annual negotiations (NAO), relates to the “safeguard clause” which, until now made it possible to align wages with inflation.
Currently, management is proposing a salary increase of 2.8% and if inflation exceeds 5%, an additional 1% increase. And the proposal is considered insufficient by the unions who want to take into account all of inflation.
Serge Jop, president of Tisséo Voyageurs, points out that “Tisséo employees benefited in 2021 (+2.8%) and in 2022 (+5.92%) from a salary increase which is higher than inflation” . “Our proposal is reasonable, he adds, this is equivalent to 11.52%, or even 12.52% increase over three years. We are in a difficult period. Tisséo is doing what is possible”.
Threat to the Rugby World Cup
The negotiations on Tuesday having yielded nothing, the inter-union calls, according to the CGT, for a new mobilization after the Easter holidays, which would not spare the metro. “May 11 will be like last week, a dead day in transport”, warns Stéphane Chapuis, general secretary of the CGT at Tisséo.
“I do not know if the will of the town hall of Toulouse today is to get out of the conflict or to drag it out until the World Cup [de rugby] “, Continues the trade unionist, referring to the five matches of the competition scheduled in the Pink City in September and October. For him, it is in any case up to the mayor, Jean-Luc Moudenc (center-right), “to take the step of showing that he is in the desire to appease the spirits”.