Suspended in March 2020 due to the health crisis, the sale of tickets on board RATP buses is due to resume on Monday.
“We do not understand”, confides Parisian a member of the CGT. From Monday, the sale of tickets on board RATP buses, suspended since March due to the health crisis, will resume, despite the opposition of drivers who fear for their safety. The union is calling for a strike movement to protest against a decision deemed “incomprehensible” even by the labor inspectorate which considers it “likely to expose drivers to an increased risk of contamination”.
In order to facilitate the reception of customers on board the buses, RATP plans to remove the Plexiglas windows installed last spring along the drivers’ cabin. “The abandonment of these protective measures appears worrying in the current context of new variants of the more contagious virus”, warns the labor inspectorate in a letter of February 8, which The Parisian got a copy.
“With its usual cynicism, management recommends airing the driver’s cab to resume sales safely. It gives us the choice to die of the Covid or the cold,” denounces the flyer of the CGT.
To justify its decision, the autonomous Parisian transport authority explains daily that the resumption of sales on board the buses aims to find “the rituals of welcoming and informing customers by facilitating access to the bus by the bus. ‘opening of the two front half-doors “. The management, which had experienced a short recovery in October before giving it up, underlines that “this measure responds to a request from Île-de-France Mobilités” and that it falls “within the framework of our contractual obligations “.
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