The president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse and two elected officials who support it have called again Thursday "a guaranteed service in transport during rush hour in case of strike", as announced at the RATP Friday.
"Freedom of trade and industry, freedom of work too!"
In a joint statement, MP Robin Reda and Senator Roger Karoutchi, who joined the movement Free! of the former LR Valérie Pécresse, ask with her "the emergency registration of their bill, filed in May 2018" which establishes "a guaranteed service in transport during rush hour in case of strike". "If the right to strike is a principle of constitutional value, the freedom to come and go, freedom of trade and industry, freedom of work too!", Pleaded the two elected, saying "insufficient" measures 2007 to improve the continuity of the public passenger transport service.
@Vpecresse requires guaranteed minimum rush hour service so that people can work. # RATPpic.twitter.com / eqesRs4S5G
- Free! (@KnowLibers) September 11, 2019"The status of the RATP, the status of RATP staff is justified only by the notion of continuity of public service.If this concept disappears, all other parameters may be questioned," say the member again of Essonne and the senator of Hauts-de-Seine.
"Extremely disturbed" traffic in perspective
Several RATP unions called on agents to strike on Friday to save their special pension scheme, which should disappear with the implementation of the "universal system" wanted by President Emmanuel Macron. With ten interrupted metro lines and closed stations, the traffic will be "extremely disturbed". This is the strongest mobilization at RATP since the strike of October 18, 2007 against the reform of special regimes under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.