Paris (AFP)
The traffic will be little disturbed Monday in Parisian transport according to the RATP, despite the call for a "dead day" by unions on February 17 in order to protest against the pension reform.
Five unions have called a strike in transport, including four at the RATP.
According to the company's forecasts published on Saturday, traffic will be normal on the sections of the RER dependent on it (lines A and B) as well as on the bus and tram networks.
On the metro side, traffic will be almost normal on most lines, but disruption will be expected on lines 2, 5 and 12, which will run despite everything, specifies the RATP.
The trade unions are hoping for a "dead day" in transport Monday, February 17, the day that the deputies' examination of the reform bill begins.
"A dead day in transport with the SNCF-RATP call unit makes sense to remind this government that it is always + No! +" To the plan of pension system by points ", underlines in a press release the railway workers' union, which "will also take part in the interprofessional appeal day of February 20", explained Monday to AFP the general secretary of FO-Cheminots, fifth union at SNCF, Philippe Herbeck.
The movement was launched by the traction pole of the Unsa-RATP on Thursday 6 February, joined the next day by the SUD, FO and Solidaires unions but not by the CGT-RATP, the second union organization within the management.
The latter considered that February 17 "symbolic date in the parliamentary agenda, is not conducive to the widening of struggles and strikes in other sectors of the country".
It therefore prefers to strike on February 20, the date of the next national inter-professional day of strikes and demonstrations set by the inter-union at national level (CGT, FO, Solidaires and youth organizations).
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