New strike in Parisian transport. Traffic promises to be “very severely disrupted” on the metro on Thursday as well as on lines A and B of the RER, partially operated by the RATP, due to a mobilization for wages and the improvement of working conditions, a announced the Régie on Monday.
Traffic will also be disrupted on the bus and tram network and the RATP invites in a press release “all travelers who have the possibility to favor teleworking or to postpone their trips”. The objective was clearly already displayed in the first press release published at the end of October : zero metro, zero RER on Thursday 10 November. The notice runs from Wednesday, November 9, 10 p.m., until Friday, November 11, 7 a.m.
The group will publish Tuesday at the end of the afternoon a first estimate of the transport plan with the frequency of the RER and the number of closed metro lines or operating only at peak hours. All of the group’s unions (CGT, FO, Unsa, La Base and Solidaires) are calling for a strike on Thursday, the eve of the long weekend of November 11. The intersyndicale is mobilizing against “the displayed contempt” of the management “towards the driving category”. An attitude “in the image of social dialogue and this policy of destruction of our public company”, explains the press release.
“The management had a way of avoiding the conflict, they have had our demands since October 7 and receive us a month later to tell us that they have no mandate to negotiate”, indicated Bastien Berthier, secretary of the traction pole. of FO-RATP which represents 72% of metro drivers.
On October 18, the unions had already called for an interprofessional strike. In total, 107,000 people demonstrated according to the Interior, “nearly 300,000” according to the CGT, organizer with FO, Solidaires, the FSU and the youth organizations Fidl, MNL, Unef and High School Life.
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