The dispute continues. For the eighth time since the start of the social movement, the unions are calling on the French who oppose the pension reform to give up on Wednesday, March 15. A date that was not chosen at random since it is in the heart of a week that promises to be decisive with the arrival of the text of the law to the mixed joint commission on the same day.
Transport, education, energy… This new day of action should cause major disruptions in certain sectors of the economy. Until then, the renewable strike movements started this week will continue on Monday to increase the pressure on the government. General description.
• SNCF
At the SNCF, where the unions have called a renewable strike, traffic should remain interrupted for the next few days. “We have to hit very hard tomorrow (Monday, editor’s note). And I can tell you that tomorrow there will be many more strikers at the SNCF than on Friday,” Julien Troccaz, a representative of the Sud Rail union, told BFMTV. “We are calling for the generalization of unemployment, we must expand it,” he explained.
“We are already on the 7th day of the strike and tomorrow there will still be more than one in two trains canceled throughout the national territory, in particular on Transilien and TER but also on the main and international lines”, Matthieu also declared. Bolle-Reddat, general secretary CGT Cheminots de Versailles on BFMTV.
In addition, his information shows that the individual declarations of intention to strike will begin to rise again “on Wednesday” due to the day of mobilization before the call of the inter-union, he assured. And even further, “in renewables”. The traffic forecasts for the TGV, Intercités and Transiliens must be communicated this Sunday at 5:00 p.m. by the railway group.
• RATP
Another strategy in the RATP where the inter-union calls for a strike for the single day of March 15. Consequently, “traffic will be almost normal on the metro and on line A of the RER” and “normal on the bus and tram networks” on Monday, the RATP has already indicated. On the other hand, “traffic on line B will be interrupted with an average of 2 out of 3 trains and the interconnection at the Gare du Nord will be maintained.”
In air traffic, the traffic situation should improve at the beginning of the week. However, no forecast has been communicated for March 15 at this time, but flight cancellations cannot be ruled out. Between 20 and 30% of the flights had been canceled during the last two days of mobilization of March 7 and 11.
• Fuels
Lockdowns at various refineries across the country are also expected to continue. At the TotalEnergies site in Donges, “the inter-union unions CGT, CFDT, FO renewed the movement until Thursday at 9:00 p.m.,” said Fabien Privé Saint-Lanne, secretary of the CGT refinery, on BFMTV. “Many things can happen in the week. The personnel is determined. (…) In all the oil sites, or almost, the strike movements continue,” he added.
However, “there is no risk of shortage” of fuel “in the coming days,” said the former president of the Union of Petroleum Industries (Ufip) Jean-Louis Schilansky on our antenna. “Simply because there are 200 depots in France and the service stations can be supplied from the depots,” he said.
On the other hand, “if the movement lasts for several weeks, there could be a risk of shortages,” he continued. But for now, “it is not the same situation as in October. Today, it is only the shipments that are on strike, the refineries continue to work. (…) It is a question of logistics more than a question of production,” he explained. Jean. -Louis Schilansky.
• Garbage Men
In Paris, 5,400 tons of waste were left uncollected this Sunday, according to the city council, on the seventh day of the renewable strike of the garbage collectors against the pension reform that should continue this Monday.
Three incineration plants at the gates of the capital, those of Ivry-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Saint-Ouen, are also closed, which explains these overflowing garbage cans in certain neighborhoods, sometimes lined up along the along the entire width of the sidewalks The metropolitan household waste agency Syctom has indicated that it diverts the containers to fifteen other treatment or storage places and has not required, at this time, the intervention of the police to end the blockade of their centers.
The capital is not the only one concerned. Several cities in the country are also affected by the strike of garbage collectors that was already renewed on Monday in some cases, such as Saint-Brieuc, reports the telegram.
• Education
In education, the teachers’ unions SNUEP-FSU as well as SUD Education have already transferred the strike call for the day of March 15. However, it is too early to determine the proportion of strikers. As for high school students, the UNEF also called demonstrations on March 15 “to impose a defeat on the government.”
Gas supply to GRT Gaz’s distribution network will be further disrupted earlier in the week when three of the four LNG terminals (two in Fos-sur-Mer and one in Saint Nazaire) that allow for gas import were suspended. natural liquefied for “seven days” last week. Gas storage sites are also affected. At the Storengy site in Céré-la-Ronde, for example, a general assembly will take place on Monday to decide on the continuation of the movement that began on Tuesday, according to France Bleu.
• Ports
The CGT docks and ports federation called a three-day strike in mid-March as part of the national mobilization against the pension reform.
Saying in a press release “more than determined”, the CGT national federation of ports and docks calls “all workers” to demonstrate on Saturday March 11 and a “72-hour strike” on March 14 and 15 . March 16.
For Thursday, March 16, the CGT Ports and Docks announces a new day of “dead ports” due to the blockade of infrastructures. The union also calls on employees to “continue to stop overtime and exceptional shifts.”
Source: BFM TV
