Jean Casteaux wants to find an agreement with the unions “in February”.

While the CGT has filed a strike notice for a period of seven months, RATP’s CEO has asked users not to be “impressed by its duration”.

“Don’t let the length of the instruction put you off.” The CEO of RATP, Jean Casteaux, and the president of Ile-de-France Mobilites, Valery Pacres, reacted on Monday, January 29 to the strike notice filed by the CGT of the Paris Transport Authority from Monday, February 5. Seven months old.

“When we file a strike notice, it is in fact to bring pressure. It is not the first or the last. We are used to it,” assured Jean Casteaux, calling for “not to be influenced by the duration of this notice”. .

With this strike notice, the union intends to express its “disagreement” with the RATP management regarding the Mandatory Annual Salary Negotiation (NAO).

“These discussions are ongoing, undoubtedly this notice was submitted to influence these talks,” the former prime minister said.

According to him, management is “actively” discussing the matter with the unions and plans to reach an agreement “in the coming weeks”, “in February”.

The CGT also shared its disagreement with management in discussions over possible bonuses during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to Jean Casteaux, a topic that must be resolved after salary negotiations.

“I trust them”

As for Valerie Pacres, she said she “trusted” RATP and SNCF to “work on the working conditions” of the agents at the time of the Olympics, but also “trusted” the latter “to complete its task at the event”.

“I don’t think they will collectively fail to realize the honor they have done to us, to us France, to us Ile-de-France in hosting these Games and they should make the best of it – just as we should make the best of it. So, I also trust him to rise to the occasion,” added the president of Ile-de-France Mobilites.