Negotiations for salary increases are in full swing at the RATP.
After several days of strike in 2022, the CGT announces that it has filed "a strike notice which covers all staff, of all categories and in all services from Thursday January 12 at 7:30 p.m. to Saturday January 14 at 7 hours ".
This mobilization takes place during a meeting between unions and management as part of the mandatory annual negotiations (NAO) on remuneration.
A rally is scheduled for Friday in front of the Val-de-Fontenay site (Val-de-Marne), during the meeting bringing together staff representatives and management.
Traffic disruptions, concentrated on Friday, will be communicated Wednesday evening, if necessary.
“This notice is above all a tool to allow employees to go to the rally during the last negotiation session”, confides a source to the CGT.
The other majority unions at the RATP, FO and Unsa, are not calling for a stoppage of work.
Disruptions on the metro network in particular could therefore be limited.
An increase of 2.2%
“Most of the salary measures granted in 2022 do not respond to the dropout due to the freezing of the value of the point for almost more than 10 years at the RATP”, estimates the CGT in its press release.
The CGT-RATP is thus calling for “a monthly statutory increase of 300 euros, equivalent to 50 index points.
She regrets that "the management has confirmed its choice to base the construction of its 2023 budget on the low option of the forecasts, i.e. an inflation rate of + 4.2%, even though the Banque de France estimates the latter at 6% annual average.
Remember that food prices have increased in one year and on average by 12.1%, those of energy by 15.1%... Unfortunately, even with a slowdown in inflation, these prices will not go down. in 2023.”
"We are asking for salary increases, not bonuses, because these will not be taken into account if an agent is transferred to another company as part of the competition", explains Vincent Gautheron, regional secretary of the CGT-RATP trade union.
In December, RATP management proposed retroactively extending the 2.2% increase in the index point - implemented on July 1, 2022 - to January 1, 2022. With the purchasing power bonus of 500 euros for low wages already paid, the profit-sharing measure of 1,300 euros paid in May and the increase in various bonuses (night work, Sunday, etc.) and allowances (teleworking), "these measures represent 200 million euros redistributed to employees of the company in the form of remuneration" in 2022, assures the management of the RATP.
These wage demands continue as the government is due to unveil its new pension reform on Tuesday.
The questioning of the special regime of the RATP could trigger a long conflict, as in 2019, when Parisian transport had been paralyzed for more than five weeks.
Inter-union discussions and with RATP employees are scheduled for this week on this issue.
