After the mobilization of December 5 (750,000 demonstrators according to the police, 1.5 million according to the unions), numerous strike calls have been launched for next week. We take stock of the Hauts-de-France.
Transports
During the day of mobilization on December 5, railway workers were on the front line with more than half of the staff on strike (this figure reached 85% among drivers alone). For this week, the strike notice (unlimited) is still active and heavy disturbances are expected throughout France. On its site, the SNCF calls to cancel your trip if you plan to leave on Monday, and if this is possible.
In Hauts-de-France, train traffic should be complicated at least until Tuesday. For the day of Monday, according to the vice-president for Transport of the region, 64 TER should circulate, a network “which will be reinforced by 96 coaches (54 “strike” coaches and 42 regular)”.
SNCF has provided some details regarding traffic in Hauts-de-France for the day on Monday. One in ten TER is in circulation. For the TGVs, the forecasts are 1 train out of 4 on the North axis, 1 train out of 7 intersectors, 2 Eurostar out of three and 3 Thalys out of 5.
The unions filed last Thursday an unlimited strike notice, disruptions are expected throughout the network, at least until Tuesday. This Monday morning, a general meeting was held at Amiens station. The railway workers present decided, unanimously by those present, to renew the strike until the following day. On the side of the SNCF, we hope for an improvement in traffic on Tuesday, December 10, yet a day of national mobilization, and for the reopening of links with Albert, Abbeville and Compiègne. This point remains to be confirmed at the beginning of the evening.
In Lille, on the Illevia network ensures that there will be “no traffic problems” for Monday day. On the other hand, for Tuesday and the following days, nothing is less certain, since we remind you that the strikers are obliged to file a strike notice 48 hours in advance.
In Beauvais, the Corolis network announced on Saturday that disruptions were to be expected on its buses. Lines C1, C2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13 are concerned. FreeBus shuttles, Express Hotels and Chronopro 1 and 2 transport will not run.
More information to come.
Tuesday demonstration
The main trade unions (CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires, MNL, UNL) and student organizations (UNEF) have called, in a press releaseto a new day of mobilization on Tuesday, “a massive day of strikes and interprofessional and intergenerational demonstrations”.
In Lille, the departure of a procession is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. from Porte de Paris.
The Snes-FSU, the first union of primary school teachers, indicated that it supported “the many renewals decided in the general assembly of establishments, the demonstrations organized on Saturday, December 7”and called “to find themselves in a new majority strike on December 10”.
In Amiens, the appointment is given to 2 p.m. at the House of Culture. Same schedule for the procession of Soissons, Place de la République. In Beauvais, the start of the event is scheduled at Place des Maréchaux for 2:30 p.m.
Government responses?
On the side of the Elysée and Matignon, we are working behind the scenes to try to provide a response to popular discontent. Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has already announced that he will unveil, on Tuesday, the content of the pension reform project worn by Jean-Paul Delevoye. The announcement should come around noon. If the Prime Minister has announced that he will stay “farm” on special diets, he defends “adaptations progressives“.
Until then, Monday, the Minister of Solidarity and Health Agnès Buzyn will receive “all social partners” with Jean-Paul Delevoye, the High Commissioner for Pensions. According to Édouard Philippe, this meeting is supposed “[clore] the round of negotiations”. The hospital unions have already called for a new day of mobilization on Tuesday, September 17.
And in schools?
Teachers were also massively present in the processions, and many were on strike on Thursday, December 5. In the first degree, the SNUipp-FSU union claims 70% of strikers, a rate qualified as“historical” by the union. For next week, he calls for a new strike dayTuesday, December 10, “because a single day will not be enough to bend the government, the inter-union and inter-professional meeting of this day has decided to call in a unitary way for a new high point of action”explains the organization on its website.
In Hauts-de-France, the site of the academy had published, Friday, a list of establishments which would be closed. More information to come, probably Monday evening. In colleges and high schools, teachers have no legal obligation to announce in advance if they will be on strike. Difficult then to establish forecasts before Monday.
