United against the postponement of the legal age to 64, the eight main French unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU) intend to continue to put pressure on the executive after having succeeded to put more than a million demonstrators in the streets (according to the authorities) on January 19 and 31, while the deputies began Monday the examination of the text in the National Assembly.
The unions have called for a fourth day of strikes and demonstrations on Saturday February 11.
Education
Due to the school holidays in zone A (Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers), fewer strikers are expected among teachers.
The FSU did not give figures for primary schools this time around.
At the universities of Rennes-2 and Jean-Jaurès in Toulouse, students voted to block on Monday.
Transport
Traffic was once again very disrupted at the SNCF on Tuesday, but less than during the two previous days of action.
SNCF Voyageurs canceled 1 out of 2 TGVs on average, almost all Intercités and 7 TER out of 10. The situation was once again contrasted in the Paris region, with between a third and a half of the trains on most lines and a very difficult situation on the RER D.
The secretary general of the CGT Cheminots, Laurent Brun, estimated Tuesday morning on Franceinfo that he wanted to "increase the level of mobilization" against the reform.
"If we stick to days like these, we do three or four more, the government passes its project", he warned, while the railway unions must, according to him, meet "probably at the end of the week".
The railway unions did not call a strike for the fourth day of national action on Saturday, the first day of vacation for zone B (Aix-Marseille and a large arc from Brittany to Alsace except Ile- de-France), but the CGT Cheminots and SUD Rail want to extend the strike this Wednesday.
The disruptions were also significant on the Parisian RATP network on Tuesday, but the management did not completely close any metro line.
Lines 8 and 13 were the most affected, open only at extended peak times on part of their route, while lines 1 and 14, automated, as well as the small line 3bis, operated normally.
The other lines should generally be open on more or less long time slots in the morning and afternoon.
RATP buses were little affected and trams not at all.
Disruptions were expected to affect many other regional networks on Tuesday.
Energy
The mobilization remained strong in the refineries and fuel depots of TotalEnergies which, according to the CGT, counted 75 to 100% of strikers.
The management of the group estimates for its part that the rate of strikers amounted to 56% against 55% on January 31 and 65% on the 19th.
The TotalEnergies refinery, January 20, 2023 in Donges, western France © LOIC VENANCE / AFP/Archives
"Shipments of products from TotalEnergies sites are interrupted today", confirmed the management, the strikers using methods of action similar to those of previous days.
"There is no lack of fuel" in the group's service stations, assured management, as on previous occasions.
"Stocks in depots and service stations are at a satisfactory level".
On the electricity side, EDF strikers cut electricity production by nearly 4,500 MW between Monday and Tuesday, the equivalent of more than four nuclear reactors, but without causing cuts, according to the group's website. .
Several power and nuclear power plants were affected, with "high rates of strikers" and "filtering at the entrance to the sites", according to Fabrice Coudour, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT.
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