STRIKE RATP. If the CGT-RATP filed a strike notice this Friday, January 13, 2023 to demand a salary increase for RATP agents, the metros, RER, buses and trams should not be disrupted.
[Mis à jour le 12 janvier 2023 à 14h00] The first strike of the year 2023 in transport was announced by the CGT-RATP for this Thursday evening from 7:30 p.m. until Saturday morning. The union is very clearly targeting the day of the Mandatory Annual Negotiations (NAO) which will be held this Friday, January 13. If a “big gathering” is already scheduled for 2 p.m. in front of the Esterel building in Val-de-Fontenay in Val-de-Marne (94), no disruption in transport (metro, RER, buses, trams ) is currently unannounced.
However, the strike notice “covers all staff, of all categories and in all services”, but it should be noted that the other majority unions at RATP, FO and Unsa, have not , not called to stop work. Users should therefore not have to worry. In addition, the Ile-de-France region, contacted by the Figaroannounced for the moment “not to expect any disturbance during this social movement”.
Through a communicated published on January 7, 2023, the CGT-RATP union filed a strike notice for Friday January 13 with the aim of demanding for all agents “a monthly statutory increase of 300 euros, equivalent to 50 index points” by specifying that “the management of the company locks the negotiations on the only question of the Average Remuneration of the Personnel in Place”. “The consequences of inflation will continue to hit agents,” added the CGT-RATP union. “Remember that food prices have increased in one year and on average by 12.1%, energy by 15.1%…”.
In this press release (below), the CGT-RATP also specified calling for “a gathering, with speeches, at the MRF workshops in Fontenay-sous-Bois on Friday January 13, 2023 from 10 a.m.”. Then, we will go to Val-de-Fontenay (catering on site), where the negotiation meeting will take place.
“In 2022, as in 2021 and even the previous years, the company has earned millions of euros in net results, the fruit of our work. Therefore, the part of the added value to be taken into account for our statutory salaries must be more important to better remunerate our work, our qualifications”, estimates the CGT in a letter sent to Jean Castex, CEO of the RATP. RATP agents pointed out that RATP management, headed by former Prime Minister Jean Castex, has “responded mainly with bonuses, most of which are ephemeral”.
For the moment, no traffic disruption is announced in the metros, buses, RER or trams. The Parisian transport authority announced to Le Figaro that it was not expecting any disturbance for the moment. To watch… You will be informed from the first hour on this page.
The strike notice for January 13, 2023 runs from Thursday January 12 at 7:30 p.m. until Saturday January 14 at 7 a.m.
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