teachers, transport, truck drivers… Who is mobilizing in Toulouse this Tuesday?
The week looks tense. While the strike in the refineries of the TotalEnergies group continues, several unions are calling for an interprofessional strike this Tuesday, October 18. A Toulousedisturbances are feared to take place at the level of rail and road traffic but also in education and the public service.
“Rise in wages”
The intersyndicale calls on all professions to mobilize for “the increase in wages, the defense of the right to strike and the protest against the requisitions of refineries provoked by the government”. This day will concern the following sectors: refineries, public transport, agri-food, education, health, nuclear power plants, etc.
The CGT Cheminot even announces a possibility of renewing this strike movement, and this, at the end of the All Saints holidays. As for the refineries, this beginning of the week is placed under the sign of confusion. A majority agreement on wages was signed at the end of last week with the CFDT and the CFE-CGC. However, the CGT rejected the compromise. The union deplores a “masquerade” and thus refuses any agreement. The CGT is planning a major mobilization on October 18.
Unfavorable transport
As for the , the CGT-Cheminots and Sud Rail unions are also taking part in the mobilization. They are the ones who, moreover, launched hostilities on October 12 by calling for a strike against a backdrop of wage demands. The unions have requisitioned themselves in the refineries. An action considered as “a frontal attack against the exercise of the right to strike”. One in two trains could run this Tuesday, October 18.
Fr Occitania, the SNCF has already been warning users since this weekend on its website that due to the interprofessional social movement, “traffic will be very disrupted in Occitania”. And that disruptions are to be expected on the trains. Users are already advised to consult the information provided by the SNCF and the lines that will be impacted by clicking here. On the side of Toulouse, disturbances are already designated this Monday.
Truck drivers and schools on strike
The CGT Transport Federation also announced at the end of last week that it would also join the movement this Tuesday, October 18.
Schools and nurseries are also calling for a strike. In several municipalities, the municipalities alerted parents at the end of last week to warn them that extracurricular could not be assured.
On the side of the public service also, a social movement is expected. “We are calling for the widest possible participation with staff in the interprofessional day of strike and demonstration on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 for the defense of the right to strike, wage increases and our rights to retirement”, added communicated in the last week of the UFSE-CGT, the first public service union. Notices have also been filed in public service entities such as the State, territorial and hospital. According to the unions, the mobilization promises to be significant.
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