"Total blockage" Friday at RATP and SNCF: one day and then that's it?

If the mobilization against the pension reform continues, it nevertheless seems to have deserted the rails. After a month and a half of disruption on all of the RATP and SNCF networks, Ile-de-France residents have since the beginning of the week found metro, RER or Transilien lines that are operating normally.

Should we therefore declare that the Ile-de-France transport strike is definitely over? Not quite. First because the unions of RATP and SNCF called for a big day of mobilization Friday, January 24, which coincides with the presentation of the pension reform bill in the Council of Ministers.

On this day, the unions call for a "total blockage". On its call to strike, the Unsa-RATP clearly sets a goal: “Friday January 24 must be a day worthy of September 13 and the last 45 days of our mobilization. »Solidaires RATP also announced its intentions:« We are preparing a dark day. No metro, bus or RER, stations and stations closed. The level of strikers will depend on the level of disruption.

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Friday's mobilization will be decisive

At the CGT, we assure that we should not trust the drop in this rate in recent days. "For the moment, we are resting and recharging the wallets," explains Béranger Cernon, CGT general secretary of the Cheminots de Paris-Gare de Lyon (SNCF). But he assures him, the railroaders want to continue the movement: “We tell ourselves that we did not do more than 40 days for nothing. "

According to him, the day on Friday will be decisive. "Our main objective is to make this mobilization day a success," he said. If there are very many of them, it could well relaunch the strike movement. "

On the side of the Unsa-RATP, we are less categorical: the day on Friday is important, but it will not necessarily lead to a resumption of the unlimited strike. "45 days of strike is physically, psychologically and financially exhausting," says Jean-Marc Judith, Unsa-RATP delegate. "A resumption of the strike is not excluded, but for the moment we will prefer other modes of action, explains Jean-Marc Judith, Unsa-RATP delegate, such as occasional strikes or occupations".

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A change of approach which resonates with Solidaires RATP. In a leaflet, the union calls for remobilization "in a strategy of continual harassment with days of total blockage". Starting with the one on Friday.