STRIKE RATP. Tuesday March 7, 2023 will be a black day in RATP public transport. Metro, bus, tram and RER will suffer disruption due to a new mobilization against the pension reform.
[Mis à jour le 3 mars 2023 à 16h16] All the majority unions of the RATP (CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA) join the interprofessional and general strike movement of Tuesday March 7 against the pension reform, and envisage a possible renewal of the movement the next day, Wednesday, March 8, international day of struggle for women’s rights.
The unions of the Paris transport authority want to “weigh even harder and win the withdrawal of this bill”, they indicate in a communicated. “If the government still does not hear the determination of the workers, the youth and all those who support this unitary movement to express their anger in the face of this new injustice, it will have to assume the blocking of the economy in our country”, they added again.
Metros, buses, trams and RER A and B will encounter major disruptions during the day on Tuesday 7 March. In the metro, stations risk closing their doors and a minimum service could be provided depending on the lines. The disruptions to bus, metro, tram and RER traffic will soon be announced in detail.
“Predict a very difficult week”, launched the association of users Plus de trains on Twitter. “If you can telecommute from Tuesday to Friday, do it to avoid big hassles and leave your place”.
The RATP inter-union “calls for a renewable strike from March 7, 2023” because “the government remains blocked on its brutal, unfair and unjustified reform”, she laments in a press release. If he “does not hear the determination of the workers (…), he will have to assume the blocking of the economy of our country”, she warns again.
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. The special pension scheme for some 40,000 RATP employees is threatened, which represents 93% of the workforce.
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.