Strikes, blockages: update on the mobilization against the pension reform

Trains and public transport affected

At the national level, rail traffic is disrupted, with three out of five TGVs and one out of two TERs on average, according to SNCF.

The provisional rate of strikers reached 16,5% Tuesday noon at the SNCF, according to a union source, a mobilization down from previous ones.

RATP has reduced traffic on most metro lines while keeping them open. In the Paris region, traffic also remains disrupted with 40% to 60% of commuter trains canceled depending on the lines.

In Paris, a thousand demonstrators invaded the tracks of the Gare de Lyon before noon, disrupting traffic a little more. In Rennes, demonstrators on the tracks stopped traffic on the Rennes / Saint-Brieuc line, according to the prefecture. The city's bus network is also affected by the blocking of its main depot, according to its manager.

Missing fuels

Tuesday at 08:30 a.m., 15,52% of service stations in France were in shortage of at least one fuel (gasoline and / or diesel) that they offered on Wednesday March 1, according to public data analyzed by AFP . 6,89% of the stations were dry.

The most affected department is now Mayenne (50% of stations in shortage of at least one fuel). The southern departments are still among the most affected, in particular Haute-Garonne (41%) and Bouches-du-Rhône (39%).

Shortages are beginning to reach Ile-de-France, in particular Val-de-Marne (44%) and Essonne (37%).

These shortages result from the disturbed situation in the refineries.

At TotalEnergies, that of Normandy is at a standstill. The employees voted to renew the strike until Thursday 13:00 p.m., according to a CGT delegate.

At the Donges refinery (Loire-Atlantique), shipments are interrupted, according to management. Ditto at the La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône), where shipments remain blocked.

At Esso-ExxonMobil, the shutdown of the Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon refinery (Seine-Maritime) continues and shipments are still blocked Tuesday morning, according to management. Regarding the Fos-sur-Mer refinery, it continues to operate in an "adjusted" manner, shipments having made it possible to avoid a production stoppage due to full tanks.

The PetroIneos refinery in Lavéra (Bouches-du-Rhône) is still shut down and its shipments blocked, according to the CGT.

Drop in electricity production

The management of EDF reports production cuts made by the strikers on Tuesday morning, of the order of 8.030 MW, or the equivalent of eight nuclear reactors (out of the 56 in the country).

The group accounts for 21,5% of strikers at midday, a decline in participation compared to March 23 at midday (25,3%).

Air transport

The airports of Montpellier and Quimper saw their traffic interrupted Tuesday morning due to the strike of air traffic controllers, according to the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Montpellier-Méditerranée reopened at 09 a.m., while Quimper-Pluguffan will remain closed until 00 p.m., causing delays.

The administration had asked the airlines to cancel preventively Tuesday and Wednesday 20% of their flights at Paris-Orly, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux.

She reiterated her request for around 20% of flights on Thursday (from Orly, Marseille, Toulouse) and Friday (from Orly, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse).

Beyond airports, work stoppages by air traffic controllers affect en-route air navigation centers (CRNA, management of aircraft transiting through French airspace), with repercussions on all European traffic.

Waste

In Paris, another 7.000 tonnes of waste litter the sidewalks, said PS mayor Anne Hidalgo, a volume in constant decline since the end of the social movement on Friday in two of the three incinerators serving the capital, and the requisition of the third.

The CGT of the waste and sanitation sector announced the suspension from Wednesday of the garbage collectors' strike in the capital, and the blocking of incinerators.

On Tuesday, blockages remain at the gates of two of the three incineration plants, the metropolitan union that manages them told AFP. If the Saint-Ouen plant, where the furnaces are still under maintenance "a few days", receives the waste normally, that of Issy-les-Moulineaux is the subject of a filter dam and that of Ivry-sur -Seine was still blocked on Tuesday morning.

In Marseille, even if the garbage collectors are still not officially on strike, the waste is piling up in several districts, in particular those affluent of Prado or Boulevard Périer.

Teachers, high school students and students

According to the Ministry of Education, 8,37% of teachers on strike including 7,60% in primary and 9,13% in secondary (middle and high schools).

The Ministry of Education reported 53 incidents in France in front of schools, including 14 blockages, 27 filter blockages, seven attempted blockages and five other forms of disruption (out of a total of 6.960 colleges and 3.720 high schools).

In Paris, blockages, often filtering, were installed in front of several high schools, including Montaigne (XNUMXth arrondissement), Lavoisier (XNUMXth), Monet (XNUMXth) or Turgot (XNUMXrd).

Actions were also organized elsewhere in France, such as in front of the Pasteur high schools in Lille, Claude-Monet in Le Havre, Jeanne-d'Arc in Rouen, Mistral in Avignon or Montgrand and Thiers in Marseille.

Access to university sites was also disrupted in several cities, including Paris - where several buildings of the University of Paris 1 were affected -, Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux, Rennes or Nice.

Eiffel Tower closed

Access to the Eiffel Tower was closed to the public on Tuesday due to a call for a staff strike, management told AFP.

"Employees follow the national movement" but there is "no blocking of access" to the monument, one of the most visited in the world, specifies the operating company (Sete) which employs around 350 people.

The strike notice being non-renewable, still according to Sete, the Eiffel Tower must reopen on Wednesday.

downgrades

The first clashes between demonstrators and the police erupted early Tuesday afternoon in Nantes where a bank branch was set on fire and the administrative court targeted. Firefighters quickly intervened to put out the fire.

Garbage cans placed in front of the door of the administrative court were set on fire, but the fire, which did not spread to the building, was extinguished using extinguishers.

The facade bore hostile tags, in particular to the police and the justice system. Tags have been written at the slavery memorial located on the banks of the Loire.