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Pension reform: between Paris and the province, a two-speed strike

2020-01-07T05:29:17.624Z


For over a month, Ile-de-France residents have suffered the effects of a historic conflict. An impact that has nothing to do with that felt in D


Olivier, 45, an automotive engineer, has never felt so "good" in his town of Montbéliard (Doubs). "When I see all the hassles in the transport of Parisians, I tell myself that they have no luck and that we are quiet in the provinces, that we are lucky," he savored. In a good month of social movement, he was "blocked once on the boulevard by demonstrators" while he was driving, returning from work. “It took me 30 minutes to go home instead of the usual ten. For me, it was a drama, but for Parisians, it's a joke, ”he smiles.

The consequences of the strike in the daily lives of citizens are clearly not experienced in the same way depending on their geographic area. The Hexagon seems to be cut in two: on the one hand, the capital and the Ile-de-France very affected by the mobilization in public transport; on the other, the province, which, even if it can face here and there a walkout, a day or two of bus stops or TER cancellations to go to the neighboring city, is far from to be paralyzed, as if out of step with the capital.

“There are two perceptions of the strike and therefore probably two perceptions of the reform. The more you are hindered in your movements, the more you want the people who block you, ”advises a ministerial adviser. Not sure: in an Ifop poll which has just appeared in the Journal du Dimanche, the sympathy felt towards the strike is higher (46%) in the Paris region than in the rest of the country (44%).

"No mockery in our campaigns"

What is certain is that the challenge is first played on the rails. However, Ile-de-France, with its 12.2 million souls, is by far the leading rail region in France, transporting 70% of the country's SNCF passengers daily. "Factually, Ile-de-France residents suffer a double strike, that of the SNCF but also that of the RATP, which is not the case in the regions. Especially since the rate of strikers decreases much less quickly at the RATP than at the SNCF, "said one in the entourage of Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Secretary of State for Transport.

VIDEO. 33 days of strike and the crowd persists in the metro

“This social conflict symbolically shows the density and the quality of the well-distributed Ile-de-France network. The flip side of this positive observation is that when there is a mobilization, the inhabitants, very dependent on public transport, are very impacted, ”decrypts the geographer Sylvain Manternach.

According to him, this sling "also reverses the logic" which is that, ordinarily, the province feels "relegated", judging that the capital "is better off". "But the galley of Parisians does not cause mockery in our campaigns," insists Sébastien Cherrier, owner of the traveling bar. It is l'Occaz which scours the villages of the Cher.

"I feel great support from the social movement"

On the 33rd day of the strike, some Ile-de-France residents squeezed like sardines in traffic jams or a metro train may have a depression that is not linked to the winter season. The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said he was struck by the observation "to what extent this strike weighed on the morale of the French, on the morale of the employees, and the fatigue it represented for hundreds of thousands of employees ”in Ile-de-France due to disruptions in transport.

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The effects of the strike on the organizations are invited to the psychiatric offices. "My patients tell me about it, but despite the great fatigue induced by walking a lot in the cold, sometimes the rain, at night, I feel great support for the social movement and great admiration for the courage strikers who are holding out this time to defend themselves, "notes a psychologist officiating in Paris.

At Matignon, we don't have the same feedback at all. "What is indisputable is that France is less blocked than in 1995. But the nuisances are there. There is a real weariness of the French, and it is less to the disadvantage of the government, than to the disadvantage of the strikers ", do we positive rue de Varenne.

Source: leparis

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