In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon recounts the success of the Castex method at the RATP with Béatrice Mathieu, senior reporter for L’Express, specialist in the economy.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Charlotte Baris (writing), Mathias Penguilly (editing), Jules Benveniste (directing) and Marion Galard (work-study).
Credits: The Parisian
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Alain Jocard/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: News requires, I’m going to start this episode by telling you about the mobilization against the pension reform: but not that of this year, that of 1995… We are in the month of December, the unions, supported by many French people, oppose to Alain Juppé’s reform. For two weeks already, all public services have been stopped, and in particular transport which is completely paralyzed. In Paris, we regularly come across hitchhikers, employees who travel the capital on foot to go to work, and every day, hundreds of kilometers of traffic jams accumulate on the ring road and in the suburbs.
These scenes, we already imagined seeing them again at the start of the movement in recent months. And yet, as Etienne Girard, editor-in-chief of the Société de L’Express department, explained to us in an episode last week:
Etienne Girard : “We are not there at all. Transport is not blocked. Of course, there are disturbances, but the country continues to live its economic life.”
Xavier Yvon : He explained to us that an essential element was missing to bend the government: economic blockage. There was therefore no paralysis in transport in Île-de-France, no conflagration among Parisian railway workers while the social climate at the RATP was explosive.
This is partly due to a man: Jean Castex. Arrived four months ago at the head of the Paris transport authority, the former Prime Minister has done everything to restore social peace. This calm at the RATP in the midst of pension reform is the symbol of the technique of the former local elected representative, a CEO at the antipodes of his predecessors (including a certain Elisabeth Borne…).
In this episode, we therefore examine the Castex method, which seduces all its employees but could be put to the test as the Paris Olympics approach.
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