The calendar of mandatory annual negotiations (NAO) on salaries scheduled for January will not be modified, assured this Monday the DDH of the SNCF François Nogué, but a gesture could be made by granting the retroactivity of salary increases in the last quarter of 2022 .
“I have announced to the unions that the purchasing power measures that would be negotiated next January may be retroactive to the fourth quarter of 2022 depending on the evolution of inflation,” said François Nogué on the eve of a strike at the SNCF to demand increases. salaries to the call of the CGT-Cheminots and Sud-Rail.
The DDH recalled the holding of professional elections from November 17 to 24, making it impossible in the meantime to negotiate on such an important issue.
+5.8% in 2022
“We have been working with the unions on wages and purchasing power for a year almost uninterruptedly,” he recalled, deploring a “political strike.”
According to François Nogué, wages increased by 5.8% on average in 2022, in January and then in July, which “corresponds to the expected inflation for the year.” “It is an endowment higher than the median wage increase in France,” he insisted, stressing that this represented 500 million euros or “half of the results generated in the first half of 2022.”
Mr. Nogué also denounced the method used by CGT-Cheminots and Sud-Rail, which used “latent notice” to go on strike.
“Not having time to make a social alarm and a notice, they went to look for an old notice from November 2019 that was about pensions,” he explained. “We are surprised by this practice and we condemn it,” said François Nogué.
Strike
The minimum services law provides for the presentation of a social alarm 15 days before the day of the strike and then a notice, which must deal with matters related to the company, five days before.
“At no time before the night of October 13 had the CGT raised the possibility of a salary strike,” he said.
On Tuesday, the circulation of regional trains will be interrupted with only one TER and one Intercity train out of every two on average. Outages are expected in Ile-de-France on the RER and Transiliens lines.
TGV traffic will be “almost normal”, but SNCF expects it to be “slightly interrupted” on the Ouigo trains, as well as on the Atlantic network, as well as the France-Spain and Eurostar links.
Source: BFM TV
