Their acronyms keep coming back in the rebellion against pension reform. Not everyone knows it, but the SNCF and the RATP nevertheless maintain, in the four corners of France, functional public transport services, almost completely spared the strike movement which disrupts train traffic nationwide. and metros and buses in Paris.
In Vannes (Morbihan), for example, there has simply been no striker since the beginning of the month. “The national mobilization was not followed at the local level”, notes, laconic, the subsidiary of the RATP which manages the network of buses and coaches in the Breton agglomeration.
Each time, these services are provided by local branches of RATP Dev and Keolis, which themselves have the two public behemoths as their parent company. Except that these operators, created in the early 2000s, are private. And that their employees are therefore not affected by the special regime of railway workers, at the heart of the revolt of the so-called “rolling” staff.
A revolt of less than 24 hours
Take the RATP Dev. It offers “mobility services”, she boasts, on “the whole range of public transport”: metro, tram, bus, regional train, cable car and tourist bus, in France and abroad. For Tuesday’s great day of mobilization, only six of the 30 networks it operates in France experienced striking personnel. The next day, she ensured that she would no longer suffer any disturbance.
Strike: two bus depots are blocked in Saint-Denis
In Angers (Maine-et-Loire), the time of the revolt will have lasted less than 24 hours. Until now, 100% of the lines in the Irigo network had been insured. This level fell to 80% on Tuesday, a drop out of proportion with the disturbances to which the inhabitants of the capital are entitled: on the same day, only two Parisian metro lines out of 16 were operating normally. “The dialogue is not more difficult at the moment than usual”, summarizes the side of the company.
The same goes for Valenciennes (Nord) where, under the name of Transvilles, RATP Dev operates the two tram lines and the bus network. There, only the day of December 5 was the object of a mobilization: 35% of the employees were strikers, by “union solidarity” or by “support”, one explains at the level of management.
An “almost non-existent” movement
Everything has since returned to normal. Including December 10 and 17, days of national strike. Asked, as in all the cities concerned, to justify their choice not to extend the movement in these companies, the local branches of representative organizations did not respond.
