Refineries, transport, teachers... Update on the sectors on strike

Estimates of the rate of strikers will be communicated during the day on Tuesday by the unions, the management of large companies or the administration.

Transport

At the SNCF, the strike began Monday at 19:00 p.m. and 80% of the TGV Inoui and Ouigo are canceled, as well as almost all the Intercités, with international connections degraded or even interrupted between France and Germany and France and Spain notably.

In Ile-de-France, on the SNCF network, one train in three ran on RER A and B and on railway lines H, K, U, one train in five on RER C and D, as well as on lines J, L, N, R, and one in ten on the RER E and line P.

In Paris, on the RATP network, two metros out of three during the day run on line 4. Traffic will be normal on lines 1 and 14 (automated) only. Line 6 is open from 05:30 a.m. to 20:00 p.m. with one train out of three on average, like line 12 - one train out of four during off-peak hours. The other lines are only open during peak hours (06:30 a.m. to 09:30 a.m. and 16:30 p.m. to 19:30 p.m.) and on certain sections.

In Lille, most buses were not running. In Marseille, the two metro lines and one out of three tram lines were closed, with 85% of the buses affected by the strike. In Nice, no tram will run.

The SNCF and the RATP in Ile-de-France have already announced that in addition to Tuesday, traffic would also be very disrupted on Wednesday, all the unions having called for renewable strikes.

In the air, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has asked companies to reduce their flight schedules on Tuesday and Wednesday, by 20% at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and by 30% at Paris-Orly, Beauvais, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice and Toulouse.

Air France plans to operate nearly eight out of ten flights, including all of its long-haul flights, without excluding "last minute delays and cancellations".

Protesters also began to block an important road in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), the national 24, overnight from Monday to Tuesday.

Educations

More than 60% of first degree teachers should be on strike on Tuesday, according to the Snuipp-FSU, the first primary union. No forecasts for colleges and high schools, teachers not being required to declare themselves 48 hours before.

Sporadic blockages by high school students are also expected. Same in the faculties.

Energy and industry

Fuel shipments were blocked Tuesday morning at the exit of "all refineries" in France (TotalEnergies, Esso-ExxonMobil and Petroineos), said the CGT-Chemistry union. There are seven refineries in France.

If these blockages continue, they could lead to the stoppage of refineries, which would no longer have room to store the fuel produced on site, and to shortages in the stations as last October, even if the oil professionals estimated Tuesday this scenario still unlikely.

In gas, three of the four LNG terminals in France were shut down for "seven days" on Monday by the unions, and French gas storage sites should also be affected on Tuesday.

At EDF, the movement started Friday afternoon at the call of the CGT. The strikers will lower the production of electricity.

On Monday, the reduction reached 3.450 megawatts (MW) in nuclear power plants and 3.165 MW in thermal power plants, the equivalent of six nuclear reactors, according to the CGT. To this was added a drop in available power from the dams of 3.600 MW on Monday at 19:00 p.m., according to EDF.

On Tuesday, the general assemblies could decide locally on a "recovery of the network", which would deprive the manager of the RTE network of the possibility of controlling the machines remotely, indicated to AFP the CGT-Energie, which promises "a black week".

Waste

The garbage collectors are called to the renewable strike by the CGT.

In Paris, garbage cans were not collected in four arrondissements on Monday, and one of the three incinerators around the capital, in Paris / Ivry, has been blocked since Monday by city officials (70 according to the police headquarters), preventing waste from being burned there.