difficult conditions of work, handling of toxic products and especially a project to overhaul pension considered unfair. All elements challenged by the agents of the RATP, who will mobilize massively this Friday, September 13 around a day-long strike. All the unions of the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens, UNSA, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC and SUD have called the agents to join the movement that is already well attended, with in-line-of-sight the report Delevoye, which includes the removal of special regimes, including that of the RATP.

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“The point of having a special regime is, first, the taking into account of the strenuous working conditions. The agents are faced with schedules of night and work in the underground,” explains Bertrand Hammache, secretary general of the CGT in paris, France 3. According to him, the system of pension points “will hurt not only the lengthening of the duration of the work, but also the amount of the contribution”.

Since a few days already, the users of public transport of the ile de France have been warned of disruption to come. “Because of a social movement, the traffic will be heavily disrupted on the networks of RATP: Friday, September 13. RATP invites you to minimise your movement.”, indicate written messages and sound. Travellers should expect significant disruptions as early as this Thursday 12 September at 18h in the metro, buses and trams, as well as on the RER A and RER B, both coexploités by the RATP and the SNCF. And Friday looks particularly black for the ile-de-france.

Friday the 13th, which promises to be black, a press release issued Wednesday

If the forecast traffic does not have for the time being not yet been announced, a press release will be issued Wednesday to 18 hours to detail the disturbances. The RATP invites travellers to consult as soon at its site, its pages on social networks, or even its application. Because the agents have until tomorrow to declare if they will participate or not in the strike movement.

“There’s a lot more reports of strike as usual. There are subway lines that are going to be interrupted during off-peak hours in particular. We have not seen a mobilization of this magnitude for a long time”, says the secretary general of the CGT-RATP. The majority trade union of drivers of the RER and metro, Unsa, indicates for its part that the motion to strike will be followed-up to 90% on subways, and 100% on the RER. Some bus lines and subway should be fully closed , and the strike is expected to be completed Saturday morning. The last strike of this magnitude dates back to October 2007, when agents of the RATP were protesting against the pension reform of the then president, Nicolas Sarkozy.

While Friday promises to be black, on Saturday, September 14 will be for its part a synonym for white night, with the opening night of the six lines RATP subway: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 and 14, as well as the tramway T2, T3a and T3b. The operation will be repeated on one Saturday per month, for six months to test the effectiveness of the device.

The other dates are Saturday 19 October, 9 November, 18 January, 15 February and 14 march. “This experiment is put in place in collaboration with the actors of the world of the night” and has to “aim to give desire for Paris to get out and reinforce the attractiveness of Paris and the region”, said the president of the regional council and the Île-de-France Mobility during a press conference in Paris. A “return of experience” is expected in April 2020 to determine if the device is maintained, or even expanded to every Saturday of the year, according to Valérie Pécresse.

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