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The CGT-RATP has filed a strike notice running from February 5 to September 9, the organization announced on Monday, unhappy with salary measures deemed "insufficient". This notice covers “all RATP staff, in each category and each service”, indicates the union. 

The CGT-RATP, the public transport union's leading union, has filed a strike notice from February 5 to September 9, a period including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the organization announced on Monday, unhappy with "insufficient" salary measures. While unions and management are engaged in compulsory annual negotiations (NAO) and discussions on possible bonuses during the summer sporting events in Paris, the CGT-RATP noted a "disagreement", in a letter sent to the CEO Jean Castex.

“The Management has confirmed its arbitration which does not meet the expectations of the agents”

According to this missive, of which AFP obtained a copy and whose content was previously revealed by BFMTV, "the Management confirmed its arbitration which does not meet the expectations of the company's agents: +0.9% increase in a period of high inflation and on the eve of a global challenge, which is to organize the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris 2024. According to the CGT, the management of the public transport company "still does not understand the agents' perception of this disdain towards them".

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Listing its demands, in particular a salary increase of 50 index points "for all" and indexation to inflation, but also negotiations to move to 32 hours of weekly work, the CGT files a strike notice current "from Monday February 5, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. to Monday September 9, 2024 at 8:00 a.m." and covering "all RATP staff, in each category and each service". Contacted by AFP on Monday, RATP management did not wish to react.

On January 17, Jean Castex said he "firmly intends to continue to improve gradually in 2024, by the end of March, by the Games", in response to criticism made by the president of the Ile Region. -de-France and the organizing authority Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) Valérie Pécresse on the lack of punctuality of Parisian transport. On January 23, RATP announced the launch of an ambitious recruitment campaign to improve the service, targeting 5,300 hires this year after 6,600 in 2023.