Paris (AFP)

The government is preparing a "transport plan" in anticipation of a strike likely to last several days from December 5, said Friday the Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, without specifying the solutions envisaged.

"Of course, we are preparing the transport plan for the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, in short, the possible days of strike, so as to facilitate the transport of the French, and we will be very vigilant on public order aspects. ", he said on the channel BFMTV, without detailing this" plan ".

The Secretary of State, who ensures maintain "a constant dialogue with the rail unions," also said he would go "next week to the SNCF to discuss directly with agents", again without further clarification.

The first three representative unions of the SNCF - CGT, Unsa and SUD-- signed on Monday a unitary call for an indefinite strike, renewable by period of 24 hours, from Thursday, December 5, day of national mobilization against the reform of the pensions.

They add to the rejection of the pension reform demands specific to the company and the railway branch in terms of employment, salary or subcontracting.

For its part, the CFDT-Cheminots, fourth union of the SNCF, announced Thursday that it would in turn submit a notice of strike renewable from December 5 - but being ready not to call to strike he was getting satisfaction in the next few days.

Unsa and the CFDT-Cheminots were received Thursday "for more than two hours" by High Commissioner Jean-Paul Delevoye and Mr. Djebbari.

Since "sectoral meetings" are currently being conducted by Mr. Delevoye and are only ending "around December 15", "I told them yesterday that, in order to respect the unions participating in these consultations, 'wait for at least that date of 10, 12, 15 December,' insisted Mr Djebbari.

"We have proposals on which we strongly agree" with the CFDT-Cheminots, "they are fervent defenders of indexing the system of points on inflation, which is expected by the report Delevoye" , he also noted.

The government is also "in complete agreement with the philosophy and practicalities" of other demands of the union, particularly in terms of retirement savings, said Mr. Djebbari.

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