While Farmer mobilization is increasing Across France, taxis will be mobilized in several places in the territory on Monday January 29th. They block main roads with snail operations in Paris, Marseille and Bordeaux.

This day of mobilization “renewable” was organized at the call of four national organizations. The demonstrators are demanding a renegotiation of the payment conditions for patient transport, while the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) proposed an agreement that the unions considered unfavorable and called for a status quo. Taxis fear that the new conditions will force them to take advantage of additional discounts for medical transport while also having to carpool for patients.

Several taxi unions were scheduled to be received at the Ministry of Health at 3 p.m. In the Ile-de-France region, agricultural unions have expressed their desire “Seat” A taxi snail operation started from the capital at 2 p.m. early in the morning on the A13 towards Porte d’Auteuil, in Paris, on the ring road. “The train moves forward at reduced speed and leaves one lane free”Smart Bison clarified.

In New Aquitaine, according to organizers and the prefecture, around five hundred taxis mobilized for a snail operation on the Bordeaux ring road, a nerve center between Paris and Spain, which had already been blocked by several hundred angry farmers from Wednesday to Friday.

Lean against shared patient transport

“We will not give up, we will do everything we can to get back on a good footing” with the CNAM, Eric Roulière-Laumonier, president of the Bordeaux Métropole and Gironde taxi union, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The prefect advised “Promoting teleworking and restricting travel” on the Bordeaux ring road; Between 85,000 and 140,000 vehicles use this route every day, which is regularly overloaded at peak times.

In Bouches-du-Rhône, taxis carried out two snail actions on Monday morning: a procession towards the prefecture in the center of Marseille and another on the A8 motorway near Aix-en-Provence, which complicated traffic.

“The health insurance company has decided to impose prices on us without negotiation”Céline Puech, who works as a taxi driver in Marseille, told AFP. “We want a return to the negotiating table, we cannot accept this pricing. The taxis have a lot of cargo and we work endless hours. We are very angry and our movement is renewable.”she explained by telephone during the procession.

In Lyon, between 250 and 300 taxis slowed down traffic on the ring road. While the mobilization was planned in advance of the farmers’ crisis, Pascal Wilder, president of the Rhône Association of Independent Taxis, spoke of one “a combination of circumstances that might make everything right.”.

Other demonstrations have been organized in Brest, Quimper, Blois, Châteauroux, Orléans, Tours and Toulouse, where the local branch of the National Taxi Union is making demands “more than four hundred” Protesters who blocked access to Blagnac airport in particular. About fifty drivers were also present near Toulouse train station late Monday morning, where some set tires on fire, blocking access to the drop-off point.

Demonstrations As early as December 11th, taxis were on the road all over France to protest against the new social security financing law that pools medical patient trips. Almost 5.5 billion euros were reimbursed for ambulance transport in 2022; 65 million trips were made for taxis and light ambulance transport alone over the course of the year, according to the authors of the law.

Almost 15% of trips are already shared. The idea put forward by Social Security is to reduce pollution and travel costs by 100 million euros per year between 2025 and 2027.