This big day of strike is marked by the work of the joint joint committee: parliamentarians could create a surprise with a new version of the pension reform.
Affected by the renewable strikes, SNCF transport has been disrupted for several days and if some improvements are felt in the circulation of traffic, travel will again be complicated on Wednesday March 15. The traffic of TGV, Ouigo, TER and Intercités risks being “severely disrupted”, more than it has been since the mobilization of March 7. With BFMTV, Matthieu Bolle-Reddat, secretary general CGT Cheminots de Versailles, assured that the number of strikers should start to rise again and cause more disruption.
But the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, qualified the projections of the unions this Tuesday on France 2: “There will be some disturbances at the SNCF: this Tuesday, we still have two TGVs out of three and one TER out of two. That should be more degraded tomorrow”.
On the RATP side, transport will run at two speeds. The unions have announced that traffic will be normal on all metro lines but that it will be “very disrupted on the RER network” all day Wednesday. It will be necessary to deal with 3 trains out of 4 on average on RER A and 2 trains out of 3 for RER B, it should be noted that the interconnections at Nanterre Préfecture and Gare du Nord will be maintained. Finally, for buses and trams, no disruptions to expect.
The SUD Education union called in a press release “all National Education and university staff to continue and amplify the mobilization” in order to put “France at a standstill”. As claimed by the first union which represents teachers, educational assistants, AESH and administrative education staff, National Education and university staff have “a role to play in this standoff since when the schools and colleges are closed, parents cannot go to work, similarly the closures of high schools or universities allow young people to mobilize and participate in blocking actions.
The teachers’ unions were joined by the high school unions, including the UNEF, which called for demonstrations and strikes to “impose a defeat on the government”.
This Wednesday, March 15, the unions also hope to bring together many French people in the street, in more than 200 municipalities in France. In Paris, the planned procession is very long: from the Invalides to Place d’Italie. Mobilizations are organized in the centers of the main cities of the country, with effects on the traffic routes. Find more information on our article below:
For the time being, fuel shipments have not resumed from the sites of TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobil. The site of Clément Mortier, FO union official at TotalEnergies’ Mardyck depot, has already announced the objective of blocking shipments until March 15, he told AFP. As franceinfo reports, in Donges, near Saint-Nazaire, the CGT indicated on Friday that the movement would be renewed at the TotalEnergies refinery until Thursday, March 16, 9 p.m.
Also according to AFP, on Wednesday March 8, 6.7% of the stations ran out of fuel (diesel or gasoline), but the current blockades and strikes are not able to cause fuel shortages, at least not in the short term. term. The mobilizations would have to last several weeks before the resupply of the stations began to suffer from the strikes.
Whether it is inter-union or on the initiative of a single federation, refineries are continuing strikes and some are even talking about renewable strikes. The employees of the TotalEnergies sites are determined to continue the efforts and know that they still have a lever to harden the movement: stopping production in addition to fuel deliveries.
With already a week of uninterrupted strike, the garbage collectors plan to continue the movement at least until the strike of March 15th. In Paris, some streets are overwhelmed with uncollected trash cans and piles of rubbish. The situation is the same in other cities such as Nantes, Metz, Le Havre or Montpellier.
Regardless of the discomfort of the residents, the garbage collectors are “very determined to continue the movement until the withdrawal of this bill”, informed on BFMTV Régis Vieceli, CGT general secretary of the waste and sanitation sector of the city of Paris. In addition to garbage collectors, waste incineration plants are also shut down, including three on the outskirts of Paris: in Ivry-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Saint-Ouen.
The government has also commented on the situation in Paris, through the voice of Clément Beaune, this Tuesday on France 2. “Paris has become a giant trash can, an open-air trash can. […] It’s not the garbage collectors on strike that I have a problem with, it is Anne Hidalgo who is striking herself! She does nothing. Zero action and radio silence”, regretted the Minister of Transport, considering that emergency measures should be taken in the capital for local residents.
Monday, March 13 in the early evening, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) announced that disruptions were looming for the day of Wednesday, March 15 near Orly airport. Air traffic controllers will indeed mobilize against the pension reform project. Airlines have therefore been asked to cancel 20% of their flights at this Paris airport. However, unlike last week, only Paris-Orly airport should be concerned. Roissy and other provincial airports were also affected by the strike the week of March 6.
The national federation of ports and docks of the CGT has warned: “all workers” could support a “work stoppage of 72 hours” from March 14 to 16, with, in conclusion, a day “dead ports” Thursday. During a press conference, Serge Coutouris, Deputy Secretary General of the National CGT Federation of Ports and Docks, made it clear that the goal was not to “block the economy”, but above all to ‘”obtain withdrawal from the project”.
