Docs’ strike, SNCF strike, medical evaluation labs strike, Put up Workplace strike, public transport strike, Air France strike… Vitality disaster and, quickly, energy cuts: it’s a basic mess!
This final month of the yr 2022 goes to be sophisticated for all French folks. The cascade of strikes, the vitality disaster, the galloping inflation, the mess on the Nationwide Meeting, the return of flu epidemics, bronchiolitis and Covid-19… In brief, the environment shouldn’t be actually festive three weeks earlier than Christmas.
A rise within the session from 25 to 50 €.
Liberal docs are on strike, these 1 and a couple of December 2022. A historic strike. The docs wish to affect the negotiations of the longer term medical conference. A collective known as Docs for Tomorrow (about 15,000 members) is asking for a “revaluation of the medical act” and asking to “be unbiased of the restrictive packages of the Cnam (Nationwide Well being Insurance coverage Fund)”. Extra concretely, they ask that the worth of the session be elevated from 25 to 50 euros! The motion guarantees to be very properly attended and could possibly be renewed.
That is inflicting the Minister of Well being, François Braun, to scream: “I can’t settle for a strike between Christmas and New 12 months’s Eve, as a result of it means placing the burden of care on the hospital and the already overworked emergency rooms”, the Minister mentioned within the columns of the Est Républicain.
“We aren’t conflict profiteers”.
The medical biology laboratories are usually not omitted. They may shut the curtain from 1 to three December. The protest motion could possibly be “limitless” if the federal government doesn’t react. The laboratory bosses don’t settle for the “minimize” of 250 million financial savings that the federal government intends to make this yr of their sector and 1.4 billion over 5 years, after the large earnings of those identical laboratories through the Covid-19 epidemic. “We aren’t conflict profiteers” reacts Lionel Barrand, president of the union Les biologistes médicaux.
Large strike at SNCF
The month of December may also be very tough on the rails. The SNCF controllers need a recognition of their job. They demand initially a rise of their salaries. The strike can be large this weekend, introduced the administration, which compelled to cancel greater than 60% of TGV and Intercity trains. The strike might final… till Christmas. As soon as once more, vacationers say they’re being held hostage.
The discontent is lastly spreading to virtually all sectors of the financial system, each personal and public: the Put up Workplace (in Bordeaux), college transport (Strasbourg, Brest), nationwide schooling, and many others. Add to this a critical risk of a strike at Air France for Christmas, and also you get an thought of the joyous environment that can reign at Christmas in our lovely nation.
Family morale down
As a result of, aside from the strikes, the scenario is slightly miserable. Inflation has taken a toll on family morale. pay for gasoline at roughly 2 euros per liter on the pump to go to work? How can the baker maintain his oven operating when electrical energy now not makes the baguette of bread worthwhile? How can we merely warmth our properties when the worth of fuel and electrical energy has elevated by an element of 6 or 7, similar to the worth of firewood? feed oneself and one’s youngsters when the worth of groceries now not permits one to purchase primary requirements?
A worrying observe to the prefects
And the worst is but to come back. As a result of the dearth of anticipation of the conflict in Ukraine and the backlash of the financial sanctions imposed on Russia, will hit us exhausting. Our nuclear energy crops, half of that are beneath upkeep, can not meet our electrical energy wants. And since Germany can now not provide us due to the dearth of Russian oil, there’s a actual threat of a blackout if the chilly climate turns into extra intense.
Therefore the observe that the Prime Minister will ship to the prefects to organize the inhabitants for doable energy cuts. Certainly, within the occasion of an influence minimize in a division or area of France, the entire of financial and social life can be impacted: cell telephones would now not work (emergency calls not possible), computer systems would now not work, visitors lights at crossroads can be shut down, elevators can be blocked, heating in properties would now not work, trains can be cancelled, faculties can be closed…
In brief, an not possible headache to handle, even when the inhabitants is warned at 3 pm by Ecowatt for a cut-off at 5 pm.
In brief, France is sinking little by little into chaos. Merry Christmas anyway!
