SNCF STRIKE. A strike call initiated by the SUD Rail union is planned for this first weekend of the school holidays, from Thursday evening December 15 until Monday December 19 morning. What disruptions are anticipated?
[Mis à jour le 13 décembre 2022 à 18h10] The Sud-Rail union has called for a signalmen’s strike from this Thursday, December 15 until Sunday, December 18, 2022 inclusive. A strike movement that falls in the middle of the first weekend of the Christmas holidays. Despite a day of negotiations with SNCF management on Friday, the union deemed the proposals insufficient, bordering on “contempt”. Whether Ito the management of SNCF Réseau proposed “a fixed monthly allowance of 60 euros (gross)” from the month of June 2023 and a “service handover” of 10 minutes at each start of service, the SUD-Rail union asked for 300 euros per month and 20 minutes of return to service. “There is still time for the SNCF management to continue negotiations if it wants to avoid a major conflict”, announced SUD-Rail in a statement.
Negotiations with the controllers, who filed strike notices over the Christmas and New Year weekends, were more constructive last Thursday. “We find that the proposals that have been made are real progress,” Yoann Saugues, federal secretary Unsa-Ferroviaire, told AFP. The issue of the negotiations was the substantial increase in salaries for the year 2023 and the reassessment of the status of controllers. The human resources director of SNCF Réseau Misoo Yoon welcomed these positive exchanges. The controllers will make their decision on Tuesday, whether or not their strike notices are lifted.
The disruptions linked to the SNCF switchmen’s strike are not yet known but should be announced between 48 and 24 hours in advance. This Tuesday, December 13, the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune nevertheless announced that he was not anticipating “strong disruptions. There may be some disruptions but we are working hard to avoid them, minimize them. There will be trains and we will ensures that the few possible disturbances on certain TGV axes are avoided, I am fighting for that until Friday evening”.
The traffic disruptions of the SNCF signalmen’s strike extend from Thursday December 15, 2022 at 8 p.m. to Monday December 19, 2022 at 8 a.m.
Four unions, Unsa, SUD-Rail, CFDT and FO locally, have filed strike notices for weekends from Friday December 23 to Monday December 26, 2022 and Friday, December 30, 2022 to Monday, January 2, 2023, in order to put pressure in the context of negotiations with the SNCF. The secretary general of the CFDT Cheminots Thomas Cavel “awaits an awareness of the management on the specific condition of the controllers”, for whom the working conditions have deteriorated. This Tuesday, December 13, the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune was nevertheless reassuring about the disruption of trains at Christmas: “I am confident that the French will be able to take vacations and take means of transport”, he said. he entrusted on France 2.
“The week is decisive,” announced the national secretary at the CFDT-railway workers Sabine Le Toquin. “We will know if Christmas is in danger or not. The ball is in the company’s court”. In the meantime, the leader of the CGT Philippe Martinez has already announced potential mobilization from January 2023 on the subject of the pension reform: