While the RATP is criticized for malfunctions due to the lack of drivers, this time it is the personnel management that is in question.
The Figaro reveals that between 50 and 60 employees of the transport authority have been on strike for five or six years. The impact on metro, bus and tram traffic is certainly marginal (we don’t know if it’s drivers from other places).
To stop working, these employees would hide behind an unlimited strike notice filed by certain unions, our colleagues add. And if they haven’t been paid for a long time, these long-term strikers would benefit from the mutual and the company’s social work.
“That’s not what interrupts the service”
The practice is legal as long as the employer is notified and the strike is based on a legitimate professional claim. It divides the company unions.
When some talk about a deviation from the right to strike, others like Unsa-RATP put it in perspective: “If 50 people out of 45,000 don’t work, that’s not what disturbs the service. What’s more, if they benefit from the mutual, it means that pay the salaried part”, comments the general secretary to the newspaper.
Questioned by BFM Business, the RATP indicated that it did not wish to comment on the matter.
This indefinite strike at the RATP is added to other practices that have been in the news, such as these fraudulent dismissals that caused dismissals or strikes of an hour of slow march that interrupt traffic. So many issues that the new president of the regional administration, Jean Castex, will have to deal with.
Source: BFM TV
