The unions are already announcing a ” powerful “ mobilization against the pension reform. The objective would even be to ” do better ” than in 1995, affirmed the general secretary of the CGT, Philippe Martinez. SNCF and RATP will be mobilized on Thursday January 19 and traffic looks quite disrupted.
Pension reform: seniors still pushed out
According to information from RTL, one in three TGVs will run on the North axis, one in five on the East axis, one in four on the Atlantic axis and one in three on the South-East axis. Only one in three TER will be in circulation and no Intercités will be available, day or night.
At the SNCF, the message of the inter-union made up of the CGT, Unsa, SUD and the CFDT was clear: “Total opposition to raising the legal retirement age to 64 accompanied by an increase in the contribution period”. “Division and inaction have no place”insisted the four railway federations which call on the management of the SNCF not to “to be the relay of this counter-reform”.
Three Paris metro lines closed
At 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 are “loans” to oppose it.
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Thursday’s strike will be closely followed in Paris transport with three metro lines completely closed (8, 10, 11) and ten lines “partially exploited” or operating only during peak hours, the RATP announced on Tuesday.
There will only be one train in two during peak hours for the RER A and one train in four during off-peak hours, with an end of service around 9 p.m. Only 1 out of 2 trains will run during peak hours on the southern part of the RER B operated by the RATP, and 2 out of 3 buses will run in Paris and in the inner suburbs.
