“France paralyzed” for some, “bring the economy to its knees” for others, the unions intend to show their muscles this Tuesday March 7 for the 6th day of mobilization against the pension reform. The social movement is “accelerating”, as the leader of the CGT, Philippe Martínez, called it in the Sunday Newspaper (JDD).
Beyond the great riots for this Tuesday, the inter-union intends to resume the strike in many sectors, unprecedented since the beginning of these actions, to break the government.
• SNCF: heavily interrupted traffic
– TGV: 1 train out of 5 on average
– North axis TGV INOUI: 1 train of 5 (1 train of 2 in Paris-Lille)
– East Axis TGV INOUI: 1 train of 5
– Atlantic Axis TGV INOUI: 1 train of 5
– Southeast Axis TGV INOUI: 1 train of 3
– OUIGO: 1 in 4 trains
– Province to province: 1 train out of 10
– TER: 1 train out of 5 on average
TER traffic will be severely disrupted in all regions. The details of the regional transport plans will be communicated by SNCF Voyageurs in each of the regions.
Customers are invited to find out about the circulation of their train in the SNCF application and on its TER website.
– Intercités: very strongly disturbed
– Daytime intercités: without circulation, except for 1 return trip Paris-Brive, 2 return trips Paris-Clermont, normal circulation Toulouse-Hendaye by replacement coach.
– Night intercity: no traffic on nights from Monday to Tuesday and from Tuesday to Wednesday
-Transilien
– RER A and B: 1 train of 3
– Lines H, K, U: 1 train of 3
– RER C and D: 1 train of 5
– Lines J, L, N, R: 1 train out of 5
– RER E: 1 train out of 10
– Line P: 1 train out of 10
-International
– Eurostar: 2 of 3 trains
– Thalys: 2 out of 3 trains
– Links France Italy: 1 return
– France-Germany connections: no traffic
– Link France-Switzerland: 1 train of 5
– France-Spain link: no traffic
This strike day could be one in a long series. “The goal is clear,” he explained a few days ago on BFMTV, Remi Aufrere-PrivelUNSA Ferroviaire union national representative: leading a 10-day strike and blockading Paris for at least two weekends.
• RATP
only the lines 1 AND 14 the metro will work normally, due to its automation.
– The lines 4 AND 6 They will run on all its lines, with two trains out of three for the first throughout the day and one train out of three for the second at peak hours and one train out of four at off-peak hours, until 8:00 p.m.
– One in three trains will run on the line 2 between 5:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., and for the line 5 from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and every fourth train from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
– One train out of every 4 is planned on the line 7 from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
– One in two trains is planned in the 7bis, from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
– One in three trains is planned in the 9 and 10, from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the first and until 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. for the second.
– The line 3rd it will run only during morning rush hours with one in three trains.
– Same for him. 8 which will operate only between Créteil Pointe du Lac and Reuilly Diderot.
The other lines will operate only partially and from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., then from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
This is the case of the 3with one train in three between Pont de Levallois and Havre-Caumartin, on the 11th with one train in three, on the entire line in the morning and between Belleville-Mairie des Lilas in the afternoon, the 12 with one train in four between Mairie d’Issy and Concorde, and the 13 with one in three trains, from the two branches to Duroc.
– On the side of the bus, the RATP also foresees very disturbed traffic with an average of 3 out of 4 buses. “Some lines could be closed,” he specifies.
As for the tramsonly T6 will circulate normally.
– Lines T1, T2 and T8 will have 3 of 4 trains.
– At T3b, the RATP schedules 2 of 3 trains.
– Three of five trains are planned for T3a and T5, and one of two for T7.
• Aerial
The General Directorate of Civil Aviation asked airlines on Thursday to reduce their flight hours by:
- 20% in Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle,
- 30% in Paris-Orly, Beauvais, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice and Toulouse
Air France plans to operate almost 8 out of 10 flights, including all its long-haul flights, the company said, “however, last-minute delays and cancellations cannot be ruled out.”
It should also be noted that the refuelers or “sky pumpers”, in charge of supplying the planes, are also called to strike at airports throughout France. The CGT, the main union in the sector, expects an “immediate” impact.
• Road transport
Some truckers could go on strike as early as Sunday night, with lockouts likely to occur as early as Monday morning.
The National Federation of Transport and Logistics Force Ouvrière-UNCP called in a press release for “all highway drivers to stop as of Sunday, March 5 at 10:00 p.m.”, adding that the work stoppages will be renewed ” March 6 and 7″.
For its part, the Federal Highway Union FGTE-CFDT, the majority union, only called for the mobilization for March 7, at the same time as the other sectors.
Clément Beaune, Minister of Transport, believes that the movement will be limited: “Last night I spoke again with the unions. They are extremely responsible, so I do not think we are in an irresponsible or blocking movement, we will do everything to ‘avoid’, he said on France 3 on Sunday.
“I do not rule out that there may be very focused and very specific actions, but I think it will be isolated,” he added.
• Fuels
The CGT has called a renewable strike at oil refineries, with the aim of “blocking the entire economy” in terms of the production, distribution and import of fuel.
Initially, the strikers intend to block shipments from refineries to depots, but if the move were to last three days or more, it could lead to refinery closures and ultimately fuel shortages as occurred last October. .
The one in Donges (Loire-Atlantique), one of the largest of TotalEnergies, is already “out of production” due to an electrical problem that occurred on February 27, according to the management.
• Energy
The movement started on Friday afternoon at the request of the CGT, on the occasion of the opening of the debate on Saturday in the Senate on article 1 of the text, on the abolition of special pension regimes, including that of energy specialists .
The stoppage caused load drops in the plants, enough to put the system under pressure and trigger the first alert threshold of the network, without causing power outages.
As of early Sunday afternoon, output cuts reached nearly 5,000 megawatts, the equivalent of five nuclear reactors. But the movement “intends to expand”, “at least until the 7th and at the latest until it expires”, declared Sébastien Ménesplier, general secretary of the CGT Energie.
He promised “a dark week in energy”, with selective cuts, blockades, occupations and always “Robin Hood operations” directed at the population (such as cutting off road radars).
• Teaching
Riots in all establishments are expected to be strong. The first union of primary school teachers in Paris announces 60% of the strikers next Tuesday among the staff of Parisian schools and 120 closed schools out of 638, or almost one school in 5 closed in Paris.
In fact, the seven main teachers’ unions have called for the “total closure of schools, colleges, secondary schools and services” on March 7. The anger against the reform will be exacerbated by the discontent on the salary issue, despite the proposals for revaluation of the ministry.
Sporadic crashes by high school students are also expected. The same in the universities, where the mobilization struggles to take off.
• Garbage Men
Until then absent from the movement, the garbage collectors will enter the dance after the call of the CGT to a renewable strike from March 7 (the central union is the majority in Paris).
All employees, from waste collectors to sorters, are concerned. “It is our contribution, our participation in the inter-union call for the blockade of the economy,” François Livartowski, federal secretary of the CGT-public services, told AFP.
Source: BFM TV
