To be heard, this is the perfect opportunity.

The RATP unions called this Wednesday for a strike on the RER A after having done so for the RER A. The social movement must take place on Saturday, the day of the Champions League final, which at 9 p.m. will oppose Real Madrid to Liverpool at the Stade de France.

Initially planned in Saint-Petersburg, this meeting was relocated to the enclosure of Saint-Denis after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

The CGT, FO, Unsa and La Base unions denounce “the lack of staff maintained for several years by the management of the RER” at the RATP.

They protest against "optimization of the workforce" and call for "strong impact" on the C1 final for which a "fan zone" supposed to welcome tens of thousands of English supporters will also be installed in the Cours de Vincennes, in the east. from Paris.

RATP wants to limit the effects of the strike

"The RATP will take all possible measures to ensure the mobility of Ile-de-France residents for Saturday's match," responded a spokesperson for the Régie.

The strike could however have limited consequences because the RATP only operates the southern part of the RER B. From the Gare du Nord, it is the SNCF which manages the line towards Saint-Denis and the Stade de France .

Regarding the RER A, the RATP manages most of the line, except for the section from Nanterre-Préfecture to Cergy and Poissy.

The management of the RATP attributes the problems of driver staff to a significant failure rate in the "series", training sessions in driving the RER, at the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022.

It therefore proposed to organize two additional "series" on the RER A as well as on the B in the second half of 2022, "which brings to eight the number of series planned during the year on line A and to five on line line B,” reads an internal document.

The unions considered the proposal insufficient and pointed out that 34 retirements were planned for 2022 on line A and 22 on line B. “The dysfunctions will continue as the proposal [de la direction] is weak”, they underline.

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