Taxis, teachers, air traffic controllers: Insights on Tuesday’s strike – Le Figaro

Taxi Demonstration, retinue of servants, claims of air traffic controllers … Many will to mobilize this Tuesday for a great day of social protest.

Taxis, air traffic controllers, teachers and officials in their whole: France is preparing for an important social mobilization Tuesday afternoon involving multiple sectors may disrupt including air traffic and transport around Paris. Which mobilizes Tuesday?

• Taxis

The taxi strike is announced the most dramatic movement and could lead to major disruptions, especially in the capital and around both Roissy and Orly. Thousands of drivers are called to mobilize across France to protest against the “excesses” of their competitors in the car transport sector with driver (VTC).

“It’s going to be hot,” said Karim told AFP Asnoun, spokesman of one of the two organizing inter-union. The strike “may be strongly monitored and very hard,” warned Serge Metz, CEO of Taxis G7, one of the most important companies of the country. A previous move, in June 2015, was studded with violence. At the time, taxis stood against UberPop, low cost service giant VTC Uber. UberPop was banned from the area but did not mean quieted, shot in Paris by decreased activity of 20-30% depending professionals.

• Officials

The taxi strike coincides with a growl of movement of some 5.6 million civil servants, subject to a rigorous regime since July 2010 and that several unions called to protest an increase in their purchasing power. Besides the decline in purchasing power, the unions denounce “the loss of jobs in key sectors of the public service”.

They argue that if recruitment were announced in 2016 in the sectors security (police, gendarmerie, justice), since the attacks last year, and in education, “the public service has generally lost 150,000 positions since 2007″ and claim “net public job creations” including in hospitals.

• Teachers

Several parades are planned in Paris and the regions, which should involve many teachers, engaged in a specific strike against the reform of colleges ‘secondary education. A third of teachers in nursery and primary schools will be on strike Tuesday to demand wage increases, as the majority union in the primary, while secondary teachers are required to disengage against the reform of college.

Among the most affected departments include the Haute-Garonne, Haut-Rhin, Seine-et-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis, with a teacher on two mobilized, said Sébastien Sihr, Secretary General of the organization . In Paris, the strike rate should approach 45%, according lifts obtained at national level.

• Air traffic controllers

Because of the participation of air traffic controllers, management General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked airlines to cancel preventively on 20% of their flights. She said the “disturbances are expected on the whole territory.” The “disruption is expected on the whole territory,” warned in a statement DGAC inviting passengers to learn directly from the companies for exact flights program.

Air France has d already shown to be able to “deliver all of its customers over the long-haul network” and “to provide over 80% of its short and medium-haul flights” in France and Europe where ” delays and last minute cancellations are not excluded, “she warns, however. From his side easyJet has canceled 35 domestic flights but also mainly to and from Switzerland, Italy and Spain.

The family allowance

Many family allowance shown on their website warning “because of a national strike, all the receptions of Caf will be closed Tuesday, January 26, 2016″. If you need to get there, first check with your Caf if the public reception is assured.