On day of Euro football, social unrest against the labor law crystallizes in key sectors, suggesting large transportation disruptions, especially in the capital battered by the garbage strike, while disparate initiatives are multiplying. The football festival is “already” spoiled, Friday regretted Jacques Lambert, the president of the organizing committee of Euro-2016. “The image that is given is not the one we wanted,” said he felt on France Inter radio station. Social movements affecting France will create “difficulties that will impact not only the competition,” continued the former prefect, “from the moment the teams and the referees can move”, not excluding the use potential for private means.
“But the game is made for spectators, and there is already more complicated. If all the fans can not come to France or travel in France, this is most unfortunate, “said the boss of the Euro.
About 7 million people, including 1.5 million foreign visitors are expected in France during the Euro which will end on 10 July.
Jacques Lambert, who was general manager of the organizing committee of the 1998 world Cup, has also indicated that “hard to understand” the meaning of social movements that disrupt the start of Euro including a strike affecting the RER serving the Stade de France when Les Bleus face Romania in the opening game.
“Those who are embarrassed, it is the fans who are not recruited from the CAC 40, the Medef (main syndicatdu patronnat, ed) or in the 7th district (exclusive area of Paris, ed), “said he said. “I do not understand the logic in disrupting its company brothers”
Here is the status of the sectors affected by social movements.
SNCF
Despite an agreement Tuesday enshrining the current work arrangement to SNCF, the strike called by the CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail and FO (non-representative) to defend the working conditions of railway workers and demand the withdrawal of labor bill , has been extended until Friday for a tenth day, despite calls from some locals CGT suspension and tighter ballots.
While thousands of fans are expected Friday night the Stade de France for the match France-Romania, disruptions are provided on the RER B and D, which will connect. SNCF nevertheless intended to ensure frequent shuttles between Paris and the stadium. Asked about possible personnel requisitions, the government has ruled out anything.
Four TGV of 5, 7 TER of 10, 1 and 1 Transilien Intercités 2 are also announced for Friday.
the Secretary of State for Transport Alain Vidal said Friday on Europe 1 that there would be “no renegotiation” with the railroad and “no tolerance” to blockages of railways on the tenth day strike at the SNCF. Faced with assault blockages, which take place from the beginning of the movement, mainly in Paris and Rennes, Alain Vidal warned that “there will be criminal prosecution and disciplinary proceedings.”
AIR FRANCE
Far from the sling against the labor law, the Air France pilots are also known to desert their cockpits during the Euro, from Saturday to Tuesday to defend jobs and conditions remuneration. The company plans to provide 70 to 80% of its flights on Saturday and expects 25% of strikers. It estimates the cost of the strike between 5 and 6 million per day.
In 2014, a single pilot strike against the rise of low cost subsidiary Transavia, was grounded half flights for two weeks.
WASTE
Garbage collectors, territorial agents, strike dump truck drivers disturb since more than ten days the main sites in the Paris region, the most important Ivry-sur-Seine / Paris 13, in continuous strike for twelve days, which usually handles 1,800 tons of garbage per day.
on Thursday, the personal and the City of Paris officers block this incinerator have decided to extend their strike until Tuesday, day of national protest against the El Khomri law.
temporary blockages continue in three other places in Paris, where pickets dislodged by the police several times.
“of course, all garbage will be picked up.” When? “There, now. Today they are being collected,” assured the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo on RMC and BFM TV. Thursday, the City announced “redeploy” his device in order to remove the garbage by private companies, which already charge normally half of the Parisian arrondissements, the other ten are managed by public ownership.
“Since last night (Thursday) we were able to get fifty more trucks to collect garbage normally and try to recover the surplus.” “This morning (Friday), we have thirty more trucks in Paris.” But to “return to a normal situation it takes a few days of course,” said the mayor of Paris.
Blockages also affect Marseille (Fos-sur-Mer), the Ariege, the Hautes Pyrenees.
OIL TERMINALS oF HAVRE (CIM)
Pillar of protest, staff Wednesday renewed its strike for 48 hours for 18 days disrupts the supply of refineries and Paris airports. Since May 27, however, a minimum service, at the behest of the Prime Minister, is provided by 17 executives who work and sleep on site. They provide pumping into the storage tanks to supply crude to ExxonMobil refinery in Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon, and kerosene and gas oil airports
The CIM crude supplies the first two refineries in France.: those of Total in Gonfreville-Orcher and ExxonMobil in Port-Jérôme (Le Havre region) and that of Total Grandpuits (Seine-et-Marne).
40% of imported crude France, through the terminals of the ICD.
LOCAL INITIATIVES
opponents multiply temporary blockages of roads, ports, locks, disrupt the current distribution, blocked access Rungis market, the port of Lyon, railways in Annecy, Toulouse, Saint-Nazaire, the Nantes ring …
in energy, walkouts in several stations generated a slight decrease production Thursday, and the CGT, which called on its activists to amplify the movement, claims to have shifted several hundred thousand meter peak hours.
(with AFP)
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