He had warned that it would be “hard” to move this Tuesday, March 7. Clément Beaune, Minister of Transport, now calls “all French people who can to telecommute” on the occasion of the new day of national mobilization against pension reform. From Limoges, the minister therefore invites “all those who have the possibility of teleworking to seize it”.
“We saw during previous days of mobilization that the French seized on these new tools, but not everyone can, I am aware of that,” he added. The unions of the RATP and the SNCF have already announced their mobilization for this day when the opponents of the reform hope to “bring France to a halt”.
“No miracle possible”
“The large public companies, including the SNCF, are organizing themselves as well as possible, but there is no miracle possible: when there are strikes there are impacts,” he acknowledged. “There will be a communication at the very beginning of the week, probably Monday morning”, finally assured Clément Beaune, indicating that the publication of these transport plans will make it possible to establish “exactly what are the impacts line by line, so that each have the most reliable information. The first traffic forecasts are expected on Sunday at the end of the day.
Same schedule for the RATP: traffic forecasts should be communicated around 5 p.m. The strikers will decide on Tuesday morning whether or not to continue the movement on Wednesday. From mid-February, the inter-union had called for a renewable strike. The air sector will also be affected by the mobilization, with 20% of flights canceled in prevention at Roissy, and 30% at Orly airport.
The Delegate Minister of Transport also indicated that: “defining a percentage of guaranteed service in the law is a false good idea”. “Either you put a very low rate and it doesn’t change much, or you put a very high rate and it would be an infringement of the right to strike which, I remind you, and that’s a good thing, is guaranteed by our constitution “, he finally added.