INTERVIEW
Many times evoked, never voted, the idea of a minimum service in transport during a strike makes its way to the right and to the Senate. Invited from Europe 1 on the eve of a fifth day of mobilization against the pension reform, Bruno Retailleau, president of the senators' group LR, denounces a current legislation "not up to the challenge". He tabled a bill Monday in the Senate, proposing to "concentrate a third of the traffic on the two peak hours" in the morning and evening.
Remains the problem of the number of agents to assemble to ensure this minimum service without calling into question the right to strike, constitutional. For the senator of Vendée relies on its text so that the SNCF can "first mobilize teams non strikers, and then complete by requisitioning the complement" among those who strike.
Automatic refund in case of cancellation
"The right to strike is not unlimited, it is not the power of a few categories to block the whole of France," said Bruno Retailleau at the microphone of Wendy Bouchard. It lists the sectors where requisitions are allowed (audiovisual, Météo France, nuclear ...) and opposes the right to strike another constitutional principle, that of the continuity of public services. The Republican elected therefore argues that his bill seeks "the right balance between the principle of the right to strike, and the other the continuity of public service."
Finally, his text proposes to facilitate the reimbursement of tickets for inconvenienced travelers, who are now obliged to fill out forms to win a canceled train. Bruno Retailleau offers an "automatic refund for those who have paid by credit card".