The rate of strikers at the SNCF fell this Friday morning to 4.6%, on the 44th consecutive day of the movement against pension reform, with two out of ten train drivers on strike, management announced in a statement.
The overall rate of strikers rose to 10.1% on Thursday, the sixth day of national inter-professional mobilization against the government's plan for a universal point retirement system. The highest level of the rate, 55.6%, was reached on the first day of the unlimited strike, December 5, and the lowest Monday, at 4.3%.
Seventh week of strike
This Friday, 19% of drivers were on strike, after 30.5% the day before, when the strike entered its seventh week, according to management's counts. Among the other personnel essential to the circulation of trains, were also on strike Friday 12.9% of the controllers (18% Thursday) and 9.9% of the signalmen (13.4% the day before).
For its part, the RATP, where an unlimited strike has also been going on since December 5, does not publish the figures of the strikers.
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