The RATP leadership has proposed to the unions a draft agreement that modifies the organization and working time of bus and tram drivers to adapt them to the opening to competition, the origin of multiple social movements in recent years.
By 2025, all bus and tram drivers must be transferred to RATP subsidiaries or to competitors that have won tenders launched by the regional transport authority, Ile-de-France Mobilités. The “territorial social framework” (CST) will then impose the same rules of organization and working time on all companies, less advantageous rules than those currently guaranteed by the RATP.
Increase from 121 rest days per year to 115 in 2024
After more than a year of negotiations to adapt the working conditions of its 18,000 train drivers to the opening to competition as of January 1, 2025, the RATP announced in May that it was taking unilateral measures, due to lack of agreement with the four union organizations representatives (CGT, FO, Unsa, CFE-CGC). After his arrival at the head of the Régie, Jean Castex relaunched the discussions, while the specter of opening up to competition opened a vocations crisis and unleashed a succession of strikes since spring.
Instead of an increase in working time of about 20 hours per year compared to a gross increase of 460 euros, the maximum that management could impose unilaterally, the draft agreement therefore provides for an increase in working time of 120 hours per year. year, in particular going from 121 days of rest to 115 in 2024, a daily length of 13 hours and services twice a day, with a bonus of 10 euros gross per service.
In exchange, employees benefit from a salary increase of 372 euros gross per month and a 20% increase in the bonus for qualification difficulty, up to 70 euros gross per month.
Satisfaction in the ranks of FO and Unsa
This draft agreement is open for signature by the unions until 6 January. For the management, the draft agreement “reinforces the attractiveness of the profession and should allow the improvement of the production and service of the bus and tram network in 2023”.
In a brochure, FO has already greeted this agreement. “When an agreement is bad for the agents, we don’t sign it, when it’s good and in the interest of the agents, we sign it,” he says. Satisfaction also on the side of Unsa, for whom “the new CEO Castex shows his first signs of love”. But the union warns that it is “waiting” for the new head of the Régie in the file of the mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), which open in January.
Source: BFM TV
