The overall rate of strikers at the SNCF reached 17% Monday in the morning, down sharply from Thursday (55.6%) and Friday (31.8%), but drivers were still very mobilized, 77.3% of them being on strike, the management said. Of the personnel needed to run trains, 58.4% of controllers and 21.9% of dispatchers were on strike Monday, the fifth day of the unlimited movement against the project of the government of universal retirement system, indicates the direction in a communicated.
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If it remains very strong, more than three quarters of drivers being strikers, the mobilization of drivers has declined a little, after a rate of 85.7% Thursday and a peak at 87.2% Friday. Management does not publish weekend strike rates. Among controllers, there is also a decline, after 73.3% of strikers Thursday, then 80% the next day. Also back side routers: they were 57% on strike Thursday before 45.3% Friday.
Three TERs out of ten
Traffic side, the strike led front to the SNCF and the RATP led on Monday very strong disruption of public transport traffic and had caused more than 600 kilometers of traffic jams in Ile-de-France in the morning. SNCF provided "between 15% to 20%" of its usual traffic, with one TGV and one Transilien (RER SNCF and suburban trains) out of five, three TER lines out of ten (mainly by bus), one Intercity train out of five, while international traffic was "very disturbed".
At RATP, the traffic was "extremely disturbed", including nine closed sixteen metro lines. On Sunday evening, both groups said there should be no improvement in traffic on Tuesday, the day of a second day of national inter-professional mobilization against the government's plan. They invite users to "limit" or "postpone their travel".