More than ever, the inter-union wants to maintain pressure on the executive to get out of the pension reform. After a particularly crowded ninth day of mobilization, organizations hope to register attendance figures at least the same or even higher. According to territorial intelligence estimates, between 650,000 and 900,000 people are expected to take to the streets throughout France. In Paris, where the procession will leave the Republic to join the Nation, between 70,000 and 100,000 people are expected.
Above all, the unions count on the continuation of the actions in various sectors of activity while some of them are disturbed by renewable strikes that began more than three weeks ago. On the eve of this tenth day of interprofessional mobilization, BFM Business takes stock of the planned interruptions.
Rail transport continues to be interrupted
The RATP communicated its traffic forecasts for March 28 on Sunday afternoon. In general, the company “expects interrupted traffic on the metro network and very interrupted on the RER” and “normal on the bus and tram networks.” In detail, circulation will be normal on automated lines 1 and 14 as well as on lines 3bis, 7bis, 9 and 2, where the service will only be provided between 5:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Half of the trains on line 3 will run while two thirds of the trains on lines 6, 7 and 12 will carry out their service. On the part of the RER A and B operated by the RATP, only three of the five trains will run with interconnections maintained at Nanterre Préfecture and Gare du Nord.
For its part, the SNCF gave its detailed forecasts late Monday afternoon but had already mentioned “seriously disrupted traffic” on Sunday, advising “travelers to postpone or cancel their scheduled trips for that day.” Only half of the TERs will circulate compared to a quarter of the Intercités during the day, the night ones being stopped. Three TGV Inoui and Ouigo out of the 5 will operate while Eurostar and Thalys traffic will be almost normal.
Around 20% of canceled flights
The General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) communicated this Friday the anticipation of the national interprofessional social movement on Tuesday and Wednesday. From Monday afternoon until Thursday morning, the DGAC warns that “air traffic will be interrupted at departures and arrivals from the Paris-Orly, Marseille-Provence, Bordeaux and Toulouse airports.” In addition to the delays, 20% of scheduled flights at these sites are expected to be cancelled. Invite travelers who can postpone their trip and contact their airline.
Mobilized for some time, the national federation of Ports and Docks CGT has called on port workers and stevedores to participate in a 24-hour strike. The renewable actions have been extended as of today, in particular through a closure of port activities for a period of 4 hours between 10 am and 4 pm. In the same way, the strikers continue with the suspension of overtime and the elimination of exceptional shifts.
Only two out of seven refineries are still producing
Snail operations and other roadblocks are to be expected due to the mobilization of many union federations of road transporters such as the CFDT FGTE, SUD-Solidaires Transports Routiers or FO Transportes et Logística. But these are not the only operations that could worry motorists since the refineries continue to be affected by the social movement despite the start of the requisitions. The energy sector -gas, oil, electricity- has remained particularly mobilized since January 19 against the reform, approved in parliament by the procedure of article 49.3.
Currently, two of the seven refineries continue to produce in France, that of Esso-Exxon-Mobil in Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhône) and that of TotalEnergies in Feyzin (Rhône), which is operating “in service at reduced flow”, according to the direction of the group. This weekend, the Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon (Esson-ExxonMobil) refinery – whose shipments are still blocked – was closed, unable to supply itself with crude oil due to the continuation of the strike at the Compagnie Industrielle Maritime (CIM), in the oil depot in Le Havre.
TotalEnergies’ so-called “Normandy” refinery, in Gonfreville-L’Orcher (Seine-Maritime), is also closed, the group’s management said. After requests on Friday from employees to allow Ile-de-France to refuel, particularly kerosene for its airports, “shipments had to stop again,” Eric Sellini, CGT coordinator at TotalEnergies, said Monday. . The La Mède biorefinery and the Donges refinery operated by the oil group were closed for reasons unrelated to the strike.
Nearly a third of primary school teachers on strike
30% of primary school teachers will be on strike on Tuesday for the new day of inter-union mobilization against the pension reform, predicts this Monday the Snuipp-FSU, the first union of infant and primary schools. This estimate of the rate of strikers, lower than the previous one, is explained according to the union by “the days of mobilization that follow one another and become an economic sacrifice for teachers.”
With regard to colleges and secondary schools, their closures are, on the other hand, more difficult to anticipate.
Garbage collectors continue to mobilize
The opposition of Parisian garbage collectors to the pension reform should not weaken tomorrow, since several operations were organized on Monday in the waste management sector. More than a hundred people calmly block the entrance to an incineration plant in Ivry, near Paris, since this morning, to show that “the determination is full and complete”.
Young activists, hospital officials or RATP employees have been meeting at the entrance doors to the cremation site since 9 in the morning, when the first dump trucks of the day had to arrive to unload. “The objective is to continue until the text that increases the legal age of departure to 64 years is withdrawn,” explained Marc Bontemps, general secretary of the FNME CGT. Syctom, the metropolitan Syctom union that runs the three incineration plants surrounding the capital, reported that two of the three sites were disturbed on Monday morning.
Source: BFM TV
