The unions of the large transport companies such as the SNCF or the RATP expressed this Wednesday their determination to oppose the pension reform and called “a resounding strike” on Thursday, January 19.
At the SNCF, the message of the inter-union made up of the CGT, Unsa, SUD and the CFDT is clear: “total opposition to lowering the legal retirement age to 64 years accompanied by an increase in the contribution period”.
The four organizations “are ready to launch the necessary battle” and call in a press release “for a forceful strike” in the railway industry on January 19, the first date chosen for a large inter-professional demonstration.
“Division and inaction have no place”, insisted the four railway federations that ask the SNCF management not to “take over from this counter-reform”.
In the RATP, where 40,000 employees are subject to a special pension plan that the government intends to reform, the CGT, FO, Unsa and CFE-CGC unions have made it known that they were “prepared” to oppose it.
New affiliates to the general regime
The reform bill would change the legal retirement age by two years, even for employees with RATP status who can retire early. The modification of the contribution period would also worry them, denounces the inter-union.
The so-called “grandfather” clause certainly makes it possible not to affect the calculation of the pension for workers already affiliated to special regimes. For the latter, the last six months of salary are taken into account and not the best 25 years, as in the general regime.
But the new entrants would be affiliated to the general regime. “For new hires, it is not taking into account the deprivations of their activity. This is unacceptable!” the unions are outraged.
Other federations are also calling for mobilization. FO-Transport and Logistics, which brings together both truckers and ambulance, coach and freighter drivers, wants to go “as far as possible in this fight.”
The federation wants to launch an “unlimited” movement from January 19 to prepare “the massive and harsh response.”
Source: BFM TV
