SNCF strike: what disruptions to expect this Thursday, January 19?

SNCF STRIKE. Will the SNCF trains that are the TGV, Intercités, TER or RER experience major disruptions this Thursday, January 19, 2023, due to a mobilization of the SNCF against the pension reform? Traffic forecasts.

[Mis à jour le 17 janvier 2023 à 12h12] A “powerful” strike is planned at the SNCF this Thursday, January 19, 2023, with a large participation of train drivers (TGV, TER, Intercités, RER). The agents, who respond to the call of the unions CGT-Cheminots, Unsa-Ferroviaire, SUD-Rail and CFDT Cheminots, are mobilizing against the extension of the retirement age for new entrants. Didier Mathis, Secretary General of UNSA-Ferroviaire, told BFM that the train drivers would be “at the rendezvous”. “It’s hot, not boiling yet but it’s hot,” said Erik Meyer, Federal Secretary SUD-Rail, on Monday.

Consequently, the deletions of TGV, Intercités or TER could be numerous on this “punch day”. If the unions do not yet call for an indefinite strike as in 2019, they promise “other mobilizations” after this first test day. SNCF users must anticipate this Black Thursday by already planning to telecommute.

Like many other sectors, the transport sector is in battle order in the face of the pension reform presented on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, by the government of Elisabeth Borne. The SNCF and RATP unions have promised to “do everything possible to oppose” the reform carried out by Elisabeth Borne and assured that “division and inaction have no place”. Via a single press release published the day after the presentation of the reform pensions, the SNCF unions condemn this “completely unfair” bill against which they declare themselves in “total opposition”.