STRIKE 10 NOVEMBER. It’s chaos on the RATP network in Paris and Île-de-France this Thursday, November 10, 2022 due to a major strike movement within the company. If, everywhere in France, many professional sectors are also following the movement, it could still be limited in the street. Live news.
The essential
- A major strike movement is organized this Thursday, November 10, 2022 in France, mainly in Paris where the circulation of the metro, buses and trams is particularly disrupted.
- On the side of the SNCF, the movement is much less followed, even if some transport difficulties are to be expected, especially on the RER.
- Other sectors are also called upon to mobilize this Thursday, in particular in National Education, Health or even public administration.
- However, the CGT is the only organization to have launched this strike call. The other unions did not follow the initiative. Thus, the challenge could be less significant than expected, especially in the street.
- Despite everything, between 150 and 200 demonstrations must take place during the day all over the country.
- As in previous strikes, the CGT is calling for higher wages and wants to be heard against pension reform.
- Follow all the news live on Internet user.
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09:12 – The threat of an indefinite strike at the RATP
Guest on the set of BFM Paris this Thursday morning, Arole Lamasse, UNSA RATP general secretary, did not rule out an extension of the strike movement at the RATP. “If we don’t live up to our demands, the movement will last much longer than today. We are ready for it. We are prepared for it,” he said, regretting that the company had “lost its attractiveness” and become “banal” in his eyes. Before concluding: “Today we are going to give solutions so that she is attractive and the bride is beautiful.”
08:51 – “Unusual” traffic in Île-de-France, far from exceptional
With this day of strike at the RATP, the mess on the roads of Île-de-France was feared. If the traffic axes in the Ile-de-France are a little busier than usual with 350km of traffic jams recorded at 8:30 a.m., the level is “unusual” according to Sytadin, but far from exceptional. And above all, very far from the record recorded on December 9, 2019 at the start of the major strike which had affected transport in the Ile-de-France region. That day, 631km of traffic jams had been recorded at 8:46 a.m.
08:40 – Carpooling requests on the rise
Carpooling, the alternative to the galley in transport? While not all cities are affected by difficulties in getting around by metro, tram or bus, BFM-TV reports that the Blablacar Daily carpooling platform still recorded a 25% increase in home-to-work carpooling requests compared to last week.
08:29 – The tramway at the stop in Nice
On the other hand, in Nice, the inhabitants must organize themselves without public transport this Thursday. The three tram lines that serve the city are indeed completely interrupted all day, as well as part of the bus network. Details can be found on the website of Azure Linesthe network operator.
08:21 – Buses severely disrupted in Toulouse
On the Toulouse side, the two metro lines are operating normally. But in the Pink City, disturbances are to be noted on the bus network due to “filtering” carried out on the three depots of Tisséo, the transport manager. “The implementation of the bus network is highly disrupted”, specifies the company.
08:15 – No disruptions in transport in Lyon
Lyon is also not affected by disruptions in public transport. No difficulty is recorded on the TCL network, manager of the metros, trams and buses of the third largest city in France.
08:07 – In Marseille, a strike (almost) not followed in transport
If in Paris, the RATP service is severely disrupted, this is not the case in Marseille. Indeed, the RTM indicates the metros, trams and buses are running normally, except for a few “weak disturbances” on buses serving the northeast of the city. For the rest, no difficulty of transport is to be expected.
08:00 – Galley in the metro in Paris this Thursday
Hello everyone and welcome to Internet user to follow this new day of strike this Thursday, November 10, 2022. In Paris, the movement which affects the RATP strongly handicaps users of public transport. Five metro lines are completely closed (2, 8, 10, 11, 12) as well as 34 stations, including the very busy Opéra, République, Grands Boulevards, Gare de l’Est, Bastille and Hôtel de Ville.
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Half of the RATP lines are closed this Thursday, November 10. Metro lines 2, 3bis, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 12 do not run. Other stations remain open but partially during peak hours (between 7 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.): this partial operation takes place on metro lines 3, 4, 6, 7, 7bis, 9 and 13. RER A and B also operate at a slower pace with one in three RERs and one in two during peak hours, as with the metro. Buses are also affected with two out of three buses running. Tram users are also affected with a less regular passage of T2 and T5. The T5 is also closed between 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and after 8:30 p.m.
The unions of the public transport networks of cities other than Paris have filed their strike notices. The city of Rouen has warned of disruptions to its Tip transport network. Indeed, metros, buses, trams are impacted. The inhabitants of Nice, who are also affected by this strike, have the consolation of being able to park for free on the city’s roads. In Montpellier, several local transport network unions have announced that they have filed a strike notice this Thursday, November 10. In Amiens, the Union syndicale solidaire des transports (UST) Keolis Amiens also filed a strike notice, as noted by the Mail Picard. However, the majority union Force Ouvrière has not yet decided on the follow-up to the movement.
What extent of the strike at the SNCF?
Regarding the SNCF, the CGT Cheminots also called for a strike on November 10, indicating that it does not accept “the decision of the Management (of the) SNCF to close the 2022 negotiations” in a communicated. “The CGT has proposed to Unsa, SUD-Rail and CFDT to act as a unit on November 10,” he added. An appeal refused by the CFDT des Cheminots, which considers that November 10 is a “single and isolated date” which is therefore not “the best way to make railway workers win”. Unsa and SUD-Rail also refused this proposal.
However, the Parisian RER lines managed by the SNCF are impacted with around one in three trains not running. For the Transilien lines, the disturbances are detailed on this site.
In addition to public transport, other sectors are affected by this strike. In the public service, a movement has been launched. In his communicated, the CGT Public Service writes that “there is no question of letting things go!” It calls for interprofessional mobilization, in particular for “general increases in salaries and pensions, the minimum wage at 2,000 euros gross”, “the indexation of salaries and pensions to inflation” or even “the means necessary for the proper functioning of public services”. Thus, as for each strike notice, the first degree teachers (nursery and primary) had to declare themselves 48 hours in advance. In these primary schools, when more than 25% of teachers are on strike, the school has a legal obligation to provide a minimum reception service. However, teachers at the secondary level (middle and high school) are not obliged to alert in advance, nor to provide a minimum reception service.
Similarly, the Federation of Health and Social Action of the CGT called for a strike “to defend the ethics of [leur] work in conditions worthy of the missions that [leur] are entrusted”. Thus, several health establishments could operate in slow motion, in particular the health and social establishments, medico-social establishments of the hospital public service, the French Blood Establishment and the Espic (private health establishment of collective interest) Some post offices could be impacted, warned the CGT. communicated dated November 3, the union had announced that a strike notice had been filed for November 10. The employees demand an immediate increase in wages as well as the allocation of the 13th month.
As during each mobilization, the CGT puts on its website an interactive map listing the gatherings across the country. Here are the main events announced for November 10:
- Paris: demonstration at 2 p.m. on the Place de la République
- Rennes: demonstration at 11 a.m. on Place Charles de Gaulle
- Lille: demonstration at 2:30 p.m. at the Porte de Paris
- Amiens: demonstration at 2 p.m. in front of the Maison de la Culture
- Brest: demonstration at 11 a.m. on Place de la Liberté
- Caen: demonstration at 11 a.m. in front of the MEDEF (10 Rue Alfred Kastler)
- Poitiers: demonstration at 2 p.m. in front of the Porte de Paris
- Nîmes: demonstration at 2.30 p.m. on the Place de la Maison Carrée
- Montpellier: demonstration at 12 p.m. in front of the station
- Toulouse: demonstration at 2 p.m., departure from the war memorial (Metro François Verdier)
- Marseille: demonstration at 10.30 a.m. at the Reformed
In a communicated official, the union called on “all workers, young people and retirees to remain mobilized to make November 10 a new day of strikes and large-scale demonstrations in all professional sectors, public and private, on the whole territory, to obtain wage increases and impose new choices and another future”.
During the last mobilization, Thursday, October 27, the movement had not been very followed. Thus, according to the police, 15,000 people were mobilized on the territory, including 1,360 in Paris. Much less than last October 18, when 300,000 people demonstrated according to the CGT, and 107,000 according to the police.
Half-hearted mobilization?
This new day of mobilization divides even within the unions, according to information from AFP whose Point echoes. On condition of anonymity, a trade unionist declared that he doubted the effectiveness of this day: “we don’t want leapfrog days that don’t give any perspective” he declared; especially since for him the priority is elsewhere, the pension reform to come in early 2023. The general secretary of the FSU union, Benoît Teste, declared that the national mobilization was “complicated to build” worrying that it would be the mobilization of the RATP which is put forward.
Also interviewed by AFP, including South West transmitted the remarks, the historian Stéphane Sirot, specialist in trade unionism, declared to expect a day “not necessarily very unifying”. Indeed, for the specialist, some federations will be “more concerned” with the elections of the unions within the public service. For Stéphane Sirot, “the challenge is to know if the CGT will keep its first place” in the public. Moreover, in this perspective Philippe Martinez, general secretary of the CGT, will not be present in the Paris procession but in Nîmes to listen to the demands of employees in the public domain in order to remain the majority union there, a title dethroned by the CFDT in the private sector.