The strike organized by the RATP against the pension reform on Friday is of a magnitude unmatched for ten years. Jean-François Amadieu, sociologist specializing in social movements, says at the microphone of Europe 1 that the executive will make every effort to prevent the movement from continuing.

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The RATP strike on Friday is a historic situation. Such a movement had not happened for ten years. Jean-François Amadieu, sociologist specializing in social movements and professor at the University Paris 1-Sorbonne, delivers his analysis to the microphone of Europe 1. "Everything will be done to avoid strikes in December," he says.

Determined to defend the special regime of agents, which might be melted into the next "universal" system by points wanted by President Emmanuel Macron, some unions already call for unlimited strikes at the end of the year. They even encourage rallying with the SNCF if the government does not back down.

The executive can no longer rely on the UNSA

"The executive is well aware that the subject of pensions is a powder keg and that participation rates are very high," says specialist Jean-François Amadieu.

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He also believes that the government is already in bad shape: "What is annoying today for members of the executive is that the National Union of Autonomous Unions, usually rather reformist and open, is clearly entry into the movement. "