The mobilization continues.
After a very popular movement in February, the main RATP unions are announcing a strike this Friday, March 25.
This time, it should mainly disrupt "surface networks", in other words buses and trams.
Details of the disruptions will be announced this Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Bus department employees, worried about the consequences of opening up to competition from 2025, are at the heart of the movement.
“Our organizations are calling for a strike on March 25 to protest against the attack on our working conditions and the denunciation of company agreements.
These attacks are aggravated by the contemptuous attitude of the management in the face of our demands for salary increases”, point out the “surface networks” sections of the UNSA, the CGT, FO, SAT and CFDT in a joint press release.
The working time of machinists at the heart of the discussions
For more than a year, the management of the board and the trade unions have been negotiating the future working conditions, which will apply within the framework of the call for competition, from January 1, 2025. The question of the working time of machinists is at the center of discussions on the future territorialized social contract (CST).
This new agreement must specify the famous “social backpack”, this device which provides guarantees to employees who will change employers.
At the end of September 2021, the handover between bosses of the outer suburbs bus networks caused long weeks of strikes, particularly in Seine-et-Marne at Transdev.
Following these movements, Île-de-France Mobilités adapted the specifications for calls for tenders.
The "social criteria" now have more weight in the choice of the candidate who will be retained.
Claims for purchasing power
The metro and RER networks could also be slightly disrupted on Friday, to a lesser extent.
The CGT RATP and FO, the majority, call on all RATP agents to stop work to obtain a general upgrade.
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“Good financial health does not benefit agents whose index point value is still frozen.
Index point which also serves as a basis for calculating other elements of our remuneration, deplores Bertrand Hammache, the delegate of the CGT RATP, in a letter to President Catherine Guillouard.
As a result, agents experience a steady decline in their purchasing power.
Today, RATP's economic and financial indicators are green.
The agents do not accept that their budget is in the red, adding to the anxiety-provoking climate of the opening up to competition and the profound transformations of the company”.