Pension reform: call for a “dead day” in transport this Monday

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It is this Monday, February 17 that the bill on pension reform arrives at the National Assembly. The traction pole Unsa-RATP, SUD, FO, Solidaires and FO-Cheminots called for a dead day in transport in France. But the unions are advancing in dispersed order.

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For the central of Philippe Martinez , the day of the arrival of the text before the parliamentarians is not the best date to bring together the opponents of the reform. The CGT prefers to mobilize its supporters on February 20, the date of the next national inter-professional day of strikes set by the inter-union with FO, Solidaires and student unions.

It remains to be seen whether, without the CGT's participation, this Monday's watchword will be followed. According to the Secretary of State for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebarri, mobilization in transport " will be little followed ". With traffic " normal to SNCF " and " normal or almost normal to RATP ", he said this Sunday on BFM TV.

It is therefore under pressure from the street that the deputies will examine the pension bill . They have 15 days to debate, a tight schedule, while 40,000 amendments have been tabled. This corresponds to an average of 125 examinations per day.

The far left party La France Insoumise alone accounts for 23,000 amendments. Which makes certain majority officials say that the use of 49-3, the parliamentary tool which allows the adoption of a text without a vote, as happened with unemployment reform, is not excluded.

Laurent Berger, the boss of the CFDT, has already warned in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche : that would be the mistake not to make.

Rail workers continue to fight: words of railway workers

If the trains arrive on time, it's because everything is running. This "black Monday" in transport is precisely to prove the contrary.

Gauthier Tacchella, RER driver, and Sébastien Tournier, hardware driver, have been on strike for a long time in the past two months. They returned to work, but this Monday they are again mobilized.

" I went on strike for a total of 56 days," said Gauthier Tacchella. I stopped because I have to eat. You have to work for a living, unfortunately, but this is not the end of the struggle . "

Same thought from his colleague Sébastien Tournier: “ I had to do a good twenty days. When we go on strike, we don't get paid, so we decided at the general assembly to go on strike again on some high points. "

And this Monday is precisely a highlight. As the bill arrives in front of the deputies, the railroad workers go up to the front. " We are still there," hammers Gauthier Tacchella. We have not given up the fight : we are always ready for battle and it is also to remind, and the government and the workers of this country, that it is by mobilizing by the strike that we will be able to do fold this government. "

For Sébastien Tournier, “ this reform is not accepted by the French. The government must understand this. He did not understand us, he does not listen to us and he despises the people. "

The railroaders are no longer at the forefront of the movement. They are also less alone. In health , education, energy and justice , actions are continuing to demand, again and again, the withdrawal of the pension reform project.

The cost of the SNCF strike estimated at one billion euros

The Secretary of State for Transport has also confirmed that the cost of the strike in December and January amounted to around one billion euros for SNCF. A savings plan will be implemented within the company, he recalled as announced in mid-January by its CEO, Jean-Pierre Farandou. There will be no planned layoffs, the secretary of state said. But proposed wage measures could be delayed.

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