Paris (AFP) – Snail Operations, industrial sites or blocking oil depots: road begin this Sunday night a renewed strike to demand higher wages, a move meant to impede the employers but may disrupt traffic.
Marseille, Bordeaux, Brest, Lyon, Metz, Lille: the unions calling the strike even pondered the exact steps to be taken based on the mobilization of the road in the night from Sunday to Monday, but to Already actions are planned in these cities or nearby, including the Port of Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine).
The Inter CGT, FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC gives the kick sending these operations from 10 p.m.. They “will last at least until Tuesday,” when the next mandatory annual trading session (NAO) in road freight transport, where unions hope to obtain wage increases.
A second meeting is scheduled Thursday, January 22. But the strike could upset the schedule
-. Significant disruptions in Marseille Monday –
Fifty actions are planned throughout the territory on the night of Sunday to Monday .
The Regional Information and Coordination road Mediterranean warned that the main roads of Marseille should know “important traffic disruptions.” He advises to avoid taking the road between 6:00 ET 9:00.
In Bordeaux, blockages of “several centers in strategic economic sectors of retailing” (platform for wholesale purchases and warehouses storage) are planned, according to Mark Rosa (CGT). The A63 may be affected, he said.
“The goal is not to block the population, but to touch the employers,” says Pascal Goument However, the CFTC-GND.
In case of blocking roads, to eg motorway tolls, only lorries will be stopped by the strikers, which permit any light vehicles. There will “inevitably, at the margin, some slowdown,” according to Jerome Truth, head of the CGT Transport.
In the Paris region, union planning to block the port of Gennevilliers from that night until Tuesday morning. Gennevilliers is the first port of Ile-de-France. Every year, 20 million tons of cargo move on this platform
Roissy airport and other industrial areas north of Paris are also scheduled
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The bus drivers and employees of the logistics sector (storage, warehousing, order processing, etc.) are also called to stop work for “refuse impoverishment and rampant Smicardisation” of the profession.
The unions are demanding “an increase in the purchasing power of minimum 100 euros” per month, paying 10 euros the minimum hourly rate for the lowest coefficients in hiring.
“Wages in the world of transport are almost frozen for three years. However, during this time, the minimum wage continues to increase,” said Marc Rosa. “Result: some employees who are between 5 and 7 years of service be paid the minimum wage”
In 2014, one of the four coefficients in force (which are the basis for wage negotiations) in. road transport – one of the most qualified employees – exceeded the minimum wage (9.61 euros gross per hour in 2015)
But the context is favorable for revaluations, say unionists, pointing aids. granted to public companies through the pact of responsibility and competitive employment tax credit (CICE), or the fuel prices down.
“We do not have sufficient leeway” retorted Nicolas Paulissen, General Delegate of the National Federation of Road Transport, an employers’ organization.
The union demands, which also require a 13th month or disease control deficiency, are “out of step with economic priorities of business, “said AFP M. Paulissen, regretting their” tactical decision “to call for protests” before the negotiation. “
His organization will present on Tuesday a” improved proposal “from “1% to 2% increase using the coefficients”, while unions are demanding 5%.
The CFDT Transport, first union of the profession, not part of the Inter. It was organized in December 1st punch action to influence the negotiations.
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