traffic “very strongly disturbed” Thursday in the metro and the RER

Three days before a strike action at the Autonomous Paris Transport Authority (RATP) for wage increases and improved working conditions, the company’s management was planning, Monday, November 7, a 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 possibility to favor teleworking or to postpone their trips”. 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 employee unions (CGT, FO, UNSA, La Base and Solidaires) are calling for a strike on Thursday, the eve of the long weekend of November 11, to demand wage increases, improved working conditions and recruitment. The stated objective of “zero metro, zero RER” could “very well be filled”warns the secretary general of Unsa-RATP, Arole Lamasse.

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Degradation of service since the start of the school year

“There will be a lot of closed lines”assures for his part Bastien Berthier, secretary of the traction pole of FO-RATP, which represents 72% of metro drivers. “The management had a way of avoiding the conflict, they have had our demands since October 7 and have received us a month later to tell us that they have no mandate to negotiate”said Mr. Berthier at the end of a meeting with management.

The probable future boss of the RATP, Jean Castex, must be heard Tuesday and Wednesday in the Senate and the National Assembly with a view to his appointment as 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 its bus network, where the offer is cut by 25% due to chronic understaffing and the multiplication of localized strikes.

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On Sunday, the RATP was questioned by Valérie Pécresse, president of the regional transport authority Ile-de-France Mobilités, for the deterioration of service since the start of the school year on certain metro lines. “in unacceptable proportions”.

The World with AFP

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