For this Christmas weekend, one in three trains should be canceled due to a vast SNCF strike which will clearly disrupt traffic, travelers whose trains have been canceled for this weekend will be reimbursed their ticket up to 200%. The unions did not openly call for this strike, but the CGT and SUD-Rail filed the notice.
This strike is actually carried by a collective, that of the agents of the commercial train service which brings together on Facebook 3,500 of the 10,000 controllers and who demand better remuneration as well as better working conditions. Interview with Stéphane Sirot, historian, specialist in the history and sociology of strikes, trade unionism and social relations.
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