They had made a summer break in this social conflict that began in April, but they intend to be heard this fall. This Friday, September 8, the day of the launch of the Rugby World Cup, the bus and tram network will be disrupted in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), due to a strike by agents of the operator Tisséo.
The CGT-Sud-FNCR-CFDT inter-union mobilized the strikers on Tuesday morning with filtering operations at the three Toulouse bus depots, causing disruptions on the network. The unions have been denouncing since the spring the abolition of the safeguard clause, which ensured the alignment of wages with inflation and preserved the purchasing power of employees.
“Discussions with management are at a standstill. It is playing the ostrich policy by not wanting to hear our demands to preserve our social rights. We are therefore going to put the pressure on by disrupting transport on Friday during the World Cup, explains Jean-Philippe Favier, deputy secretary general of CGT Tisséo. For the other match days, we will adapt the movement but we are waiting for the management to return to the negotiating table”.
Summoned to court on September 18
Fans who have planned to go Friday evening to the Rugby Village to follow the France – New Zealand match on a giant screen will therefore have to anticipate their trip. The network will be disrupted at the end of the morning and then from 6 p.m.
On September 18, the unions were summoned to the Toulouse court of law, following a summons from the management of Tisséo who accused them of blocking bus and tram depots at the end of May and the beginning of June. She claims 40,000 euros from each union for these four days of blockage.
