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This social conflict has taken its roots in the opening to competition from bus lines of the Grande Crown Parisian by the Organizing Authority for Transport of the Region, Ile-de-France Mobilités.

The unions and the corporate Francility Seine and Oise (FSO), working the Cergy-Pontoise bus community (Val-d’Oise), signed an settlement ending a strike began on November 7, 2024, discovered the France-Presse company, Tuesday, March 11, from the Transport Authority, Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM). Public institution “Hads this agreement which will make it possible to replace the 100 % bus offer on the territory and to have, for employees, a balanced and solid social framework”stories IDFM in a press launch.

For 4 months, the social motion strongly disrupted the general public transport service of the primary agglomeration of Val-d’Oise-32 strains and a few 480 employees-, exploited from the 1er January 2024 by FSO, of the Lacroixsavac group, as a part of the opening to the progressive competitors of bus networks.

When a brand new operator arrives, negotiations should open on the idea of the collective settlement, to evaluate the working circumstances. It is on this context and regardless of virtually day by day negotiations that the showdown started between administration and staff.

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Aurélien Taché, deputy (rebellious France) of Cergy, certified Tuesday this settlement between unions and FSO as ” victory “. “While the public transport network of all of Ile-de-France is preparing to experience a privatization similar to that known Cergy, the strikers of FSO must serve as an example”he stated in a press launch printed on X.

The bus community, used day by day by some 80,000 customers of the dense agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise, has identified “A total recovery of work this Tuesday, March 11”in keeping with the main points offered by IDFM.

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