• Traffic will be almost normal for the metros and RER this Friday.

    However, slight disturbances are to be expected on lines 2, 7, 8, 9 and 13.

  • On the bus network, approximately 30% of the lines will be interrupted, while one out of two buses will be in service for the remaining lines.

  • This strike movement initially concerned wages, but demands against adaptation to the opening up to competition were added to it.

Good news for Ile-de-France residents.

RATP traffic will be almost normal for the metros and RER this Friday, but with major disruptions on buses and trams due to a strike for wages and against the opening to competition, announced the transport authority. this Wednesday.

The metros will run normally except on lines 2, 7, 8, 9 and 13 where slight disruptions are to be expected.

RER A and B will also run normally.

Disruptions less significant than February 18

On the other hand, the impact promises to be much stronger on the bus network where approximately 30% of the lines will be interrupted, while one in two buses will be in service on the rest of the network.

On the tramway side, the T8 will be closed and one in two or three trains will run on all the other lines.

The disruptions will be much less significant than during the first day of the strike on February 18, which saw almost all metro lines close or operate only during rush hour.

Negotiations still ongoing

The strike movement, which initially focused on wages, came on top of another day of protest against adaptation to opening up to competition.

The management is currently negotiating with the unions an agreement on the working time of the 15,000 Parisian bus drivers to integrate into the "territorial social framework" (CST) which will impose the same rules of organization and working time on all companies. from January 1, 2025.

Extend working hours, eliminate rest days...

This new agreement must enter into force on July 1 in order to allow the RATP to be in working order to win calls for tenders via its subsidiary CAP Ile-de-France on the twelve lots of the Paris bus market and of its inner suburbs.

For the moment, the management proposes to extend the working time by 40 minutes per day, the elimination of six days of rest, all compensated by a salary increase of around 70 euros per month, according to the unions.

The unions call for the unfreezing of the value of the point

"The company is making fun of us a little," insists Arole Lamasse, secretary general of Unsa-RATP for whom "the working conditions of machinists will be upset" and who believes that the compensation is not enough.

The CGT continues to ask for the suspension of the process and the "maintenance of a public monopoly".

The unions are also asking for the unfreezing of the value of the point (frozen since 2012) as civil servants will be entitled to it.

But the CEO of the public group, Catherine Guillouard, recalled it at the beginning of March: “for us, the negotiations on salaries are over”.

A sentence that announces new disturbances.

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