By Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 5:35 p.m., Updated 10 hours ago
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The union is at odds with management over salary negotiations. The 8 month notice period covers the period of the Olympic Games.
Will the Olympic and Paralympic Games be disrupted by strikes in Parisian transport? The CGT-RATP, the public transport union’s leading union, has filed a strike notice running from February 5 to September 9, the organization announced on Monday, January 29. 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 has noted a “disagreement”in a letter sent to CEO Jean Castex.
According to this missive, of which AFP obtained a copy, “Management has 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 that of organizing the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games”. According to the CGT, the management of the public carrier “still cannot measure the agents’ perception of this disdain towards them”.
Increase of 50 index points for everyone
Listing his demands, including a salary increase of 50 index points “for everyone” and indexation to inflation, but also negotiations to move to 32 hours of weekly work, the CGT files a current strike notice “from Monday February 5, 2024 at 7 p.m. to Monday September 9, 2024 at 8 a.m.” and covering “all RATP staff, in each category and in each service”. Contacted by AFP on Monday, RATP management did not wish to react.
“When we file a strike notice, it is to put pressure, but we must not let ourselves be impressed by the length of this notice”reacted Jean Castex in the evening, at the end of an exceptional board of directors of the organizing authority Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM). “Negotiations will take place.”
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