SNCF STRIKE. This Tuesday, February 7, TGV, TER and RER are again subject to disruption due to a third strike action against the pension reform. The SNCF unions are not closing the door to the possibility of an indefinite strike. But when ?
[Mis à jour le 6 février 2023 à 19h59] While a third day of strike against the pension reform takes place this Tuesday, February 7, 2023, the idea of an indefinite strike at the SNCF is already in everyone’s mind. After two well-attended mobilizations against the pension reform, the CGT-Cheminots and SUD-Rail called on SNCF agents to stop work on Tuesday February 7 and Wednesday February 8, 2023, before a renewable notice “from mid-February”, during the school holidays. Are we about to relive December 2019? Remember, the SNCF and the RATP had, at the time, launched an indefinite strike against this same pension reform which had been aborted due to the Covid.
If the government still does not back down after the fourth day of national and interprofessional mobilization on Saturday February 11, on which the SNCF unions have not yet called for a strike, it may be that the first SNCF union, the CGT -Railway workers, offers one renewable strike per period of 24 hours.
For SUD-Rail, its federal secretary Erik Meyer remains “convinced” that a renewable strike “will make this government bend”. An opinion which is not currently shared by the Unsa Ferroviaire and CFDT-Cheminots unions. If the mobilization of agents does not weaken this week, users could potentially relive the ordeal of December 2019 or at least find themselves faced with other such events.