STRIKE RATP. The fear of a new mobilization of RATP employees is felt, brandished by the FO, CGT and UNSA unions, which do not rule out an indefinite strike in December 2022 if Jean Castex does not meet their expectations.
[Mis à jour le 30 novembre 2022 à 12h53] This Monday, November 28, hundreds of RATP employees, at least 400 in total, gathered at the headquarters of the transport company in Paris to demand the presence of Jean Castex, who was on his first day as new CEO. of the railway company. “We are asking for an increase in our wages by 50 points, or 300 euros,” said the CGT union representative in the Rail Rolling Stock (MRF) department of the Régie Fabrice Delage to AFP. In place of Jean Castex, they were received by the director of MRF Sylvie Buglioni and the interview was interrupted by the presence of several dozen demonstrators, AFP announced.
Tensions at the RATP headquarters.
Quil come down! shout the strikers to call Jean Castex to come and negotiate in person.
We’ll go get it! employees respond. pic.twitter.com/UDPD4z1B6z
— Clement Lanot (@ClementLanot) November 28, 2022
Will users have to face a new strike at the RATP at the end of 2022, worthy of that of November 10, which had particularly paralyzed public transport in the French capital and its suburbs? “If there are no urgent decisions, there will be a movement of greater magnitude”, thus warned, in a communicated published on Friday, November 11,
Laurent Djebali at the head of the FO RATP union. “Faced with inflation that exceeds 6 % over one year in October, RATP employees only saw their salary increase by 2.6 % over the year, and in two stages (0.4 % in March, and 2.2 % in June 2022). Fifteen or twenty years ago, we received 1.5 times the minimum wage. Today, we are becoming Smicards”
, he announced. Jean Castex has to worry about “in a context of degradation of service and deep discomfort among employees”, warns Laurent Djebali.
In the meantime, since October 18, agents responsible for the maintenance of metro and RER trains have gone on strike to demand the same increases of 300 euros and to protest against the abolition of a bonus. They would be “the worst paid in the RATP”, according to the general secretary of the FO union Jean-Christophe Delprat. Indeed, these agents have not obtained a raise for 10 years. “Today, the average salary is around 1,600 euros net, and less than 1,400 euros net excluding bonuses for young recruits”, explained this Wednesday Faouzi Abou Rayan, union representative of the CGT-RATP, to CNews, stressing that “in the month of June / July”, they “still had a salary increase of 2.8%, but that corresponds to 20 euros gross per month. It is starting to be critical”. The trains awaiting maintenance accumulating, the fear of disruptions on the RER and metros is felt…
When exactly should we expect another “dark day”? According to the boss of FO RATP Laurent Djebali, if a mobilization is decided, it would happen “from december“. What are the demands? In the sights of the unions, a salary increase “at least 3%” in order to “resist in the face of inflation”, but also an “improvement in the quality of life at work” and the ” return of a human management, close and attentive”.
Thursday, November 10 was a day of strike at the RATP launched by all the unions in the group, bringing the metro network to a virtual standstill. If the CGT-RATP had announced not to renew the movement the following day, it had indicated that this was the “beginning of a cycle”. After this dark day for Parisian transport users, the UNSA-RATP union therefore hopes that the new CEO who has just arrived, who is none other than former Prime Minister Jean Castex, will meet their expectations.
The press release below entitled: “November 10: big mobilization. And tomorrow, we continue unlimited?” was published on Saturday November 12, 2022 by the UNSA-RATP union which announced that they “remain vigilant and attentive to the first signs of political action [du] future CEO, Jean Castex”. The mobilization of November 10 at the RATP had taken place just after the hearing of Jean Castex before the parliamentarians, appointed Chairman and CEO of the RATP by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron. “Without any sign of the new CEO, our movement must be part of new and renewable movements”, they added.
Several tools are available on the Web to find out about upcoming traffic disruptions at RATP. To know the traffic status of the metro, RER, bus, tram in real time, with the stations possibly closed today, consult theRATP traffic information. For the RER, you can also follow the Twitter accounts @RERA, @RERB, @RERC, @RERD Where @RERE. To monitor train traffic in real time, visit the Transilien.