SNCF STRIKE. The fear of a major renewable strike at the SNCF starting this Wednesday, December 11 is becoming more and more distant.
Will the Christmas holidays finally be spared by the renewable strike announced this Wednesday, December 11 at the SNCF to protest against the dismantling of SNCF Freight? Following the signing of an agreement between the management of the railway group and the Unsa and the CFDT concerning the future of Fret SNCF employees, these two union organizations announced that they were withdrawing their mobilization, while the CGT-Cheminots and Sud-Rail maintains their appeal.
Unsa and the CFDT have in fact announced that they have obtained guarantees for the 4,500 employees transferred to the Hexafret and Technis subsidiaries on January 1. Via a press releasethe two unions explain that they acted “with responsibility” and in a “constructive spirit”. But these two organizations, considered reformist, are not in the majority among the unions.
Should we mean by this that the threat of a renewable strike every 24 hours from this date could still be relevant? Thursday, November 21, the strike movement presented as an “ultimatum” before December 11, if no response was provided to the demands of the inter-union, was little followed. According to the CGT union, only one in four railway workers was on strike that day. A figure which distances itself from the level of mobilization of strikes in recent years. The disruptions on the rails were in fact concentrated only on regional trains, with one Intercités out of two in circulation, 7 TER out of 10 on average nationally and disruptions on the RER (D in particular) and Transiliens of Île-de-France.
“The French don’t want this strike at Christmas, we understand them, and above all there are no reasons,” declared Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF, on RTL. This major movement in response to the confirmation of the dismantling of Fret SNCF on January 1 as well as to denounce the opening to competition has made the Minister for Transport François Durovray “quite doubtful”, “especially since it does not there are no other possible hypotheses” than this dismantling, he announced. The inter-union has not yet ruled on the renewal of the movement. You will be the first to know on this page.