STRIKE RATP. The 5th day of mobilization against the pension reform should not have serious consequences for the Parisian transport of the RATP this Thursday, February 16, 2023.
[Mis à jour le 14 février 2023 à 18h57] A 5th act of strike against the pension reform is planned for this Thursday, February 16, 2023, with the main unions representing the autonomous Paris transport authority (CGT, FO, UNSA and CFE-CGC) joining the call. Parisian public transport will however encounter only “insignificant disturbances” on the metro lines, announces The Parisian. The RER A and B managed by the RATP on the southern axis should run almost normally. Notice to users, it is not this day of February 16 that we must worry about, but rather that of Tuesday March 7, the day chosen by the RATP unions to renew the social movement. Learn more below:
In a communicated published on Facebook on February 11, the RATP inter-union calls “to participate massively” in the day of interprofessional demonstration against the pension reform of February 16, 2023. RATP agents are indeed in the front line: the special regime retirement of some 40,000 RATP employees is threatened, which represents 93% of the workforce.
The RATP intersyndicale “calls for a renewable strike from March 7, 2023 in order to weigh even stronger and win the withdrawal of this bill”. This mobilization inevitably reminds us of the strike which paralyzed French rail for two months in 2019, during the first mobilization against the pension reform which had been aborted due to the Covid-19 health crisis.
RATP strike: where to consult traffic forecasts?
Several tools are available on the Web to find out about upcoming traffic disruptions. To know the state of RATP traffic (metro, RER, bus, tram in real time), consult this page. For the RER, you can also follow the Twitter accounts @RERA, @RERB, @RERC, @RERD Or @RERE. To monitor train traffic in real time, visit the Transilien.