The holidays have not appeased the anger of Toulouse trams, who are preparing for a third day of strike Thursday May 11, after those of April 11 and 18. According to the inter-union (CGT, FNCR, CFDT, South), more than 60% of drivers will disengage. Twenty bus lines will be at a complete stop, the others being very disrupted, and the tram, if it starts, should be stopped around 10 a.m., as on previous occasions. The staff of the automatic metro is also mostly on strike, but it will be replaced by on-call managers.
Congress and Music Festival
At the house of Tisseo, the conflict relates to the disappearance of the “safeguard clause”, which made it possible to automatically align salaries and bonuses with inflation. But, given the magnitude of the price increase, the management proposes to limit itself to a salary increase of 2.8%, then, if inflation exceeds 5% in 2023, to an additional increase of 1%.
The lines have not moved since April 18. “The management and our elected officials remain deaf to our demands”, underlines Stéphane Chapuis, the general secretary of the CGT Tisséo, who speaks of “willingness to rot”.
The strikers must converge on the Capitol at the end of the morning. They do not rule out further hardening the movement, by targeting specific events to stall the next mobilizations: a congress on mobilityon May 30 and 31, at the Meet, for example, or the Fête de la Musique.