SNCF STRIKE. After a day of strike on Thursday January 19, the mobilization against the pension reform is not over. Another strike day is scheduled for January 31.
[Mis à jour le 22 janvier 2023 à 11h55] The strong mobilization of Thursday, January 19 should give ideas to the unions of the SNCF. That day, nearly 503 TGVs had been canceled, and 1 TER out of 10 was in circulation to protest against the pension reform presented by the Borne government. While traffic returned to normal this weekend, the intersyndicale (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, Solidaires, FSU) called for a new day of mobilization against the pension reform on next Tuesday, January 31. However, on the air of BFM TV, Laurent Brun, secretary general of the CGT-Cheminots, indicated that this single day would not be enough: “We are working on raising the level of mobilization among railway workers and indeed, we will probably go beyond what is programmed by the confederal inter-unions.” In addition, at the end of the inter-union strike day of January 31, 2023, “The inter-union will meet the same evening,” she said in a statement.
This Friday, January 20, 2023, the secretary general of the CGT-Cheminots Laurent Brun announced on RMC that the railway workers would mobilize beyond the date of January 31 proposed by the inter-union on Thursday evening: “We are working on raising the level of mobilization among railway workers and indeed, we will probably go beyond what is programmed by the confederal intersyndicales”. “We are not at the testimonial, we are going to establish a balance of power as the government wishes because that is all it hears,” he added. “Not only do we want this reform to fail, but we also want to go back to the previous reforms (…) As my comrades said, ‘not only are we not giving up anything, but we are taking everything back’. We want a start at 60 years for all and 55 years for difficult jobs”.
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