The strike by SNCF switchmen scheduled for next Friday and Saturday should have few repercussions on rail traffic, which should be “practically normal”, a source close to the matter said on Tuesday. “The information available to date suggests almost normal traffic next weekend, with possible localized disturbances,” said this source in a message sent to AFP.
The switches, responsible for regulating traffic on the network, are called to stop their work by Sud-Rail on Friday, February 23 and Saturday, February 24, a week after a very successful controllers’ strike, which caused the cancellation of a train of two. on the main lines.
“Maxi-pursuit-cross”
These dates have the particularity of being common to the three school holiday zones A, B and C.
The exchangers are called to mobilize to demand “a true massive hiring plan”, an “increase in the operational circulation bonus” to 300 euros compared to the current 60 euros and issues of work organization with more predictable schedules, according to Julien Troccaz, Sud-Rail. federal secretary. According to him, “the mobilization will probably be important in the Alps, in the Paris region or in New Aquitaine.”
On the part of SNCF Réseau, infrastructure manager, we assure that the company has made hiring efforts in recent years, going from 508 hires in 2020 to 654 in 2022, then 902 in 2023. During the last changers’ strike in December 2022 , around Fifty TGVs out of a total of 1,300 were canceled during the first weekend of the Christmas holidays.
Source: BFM TV
