Listening, improvement clues, but there are no important ads: SNCF management is trying to move a risk of a hard blow of drivers and TGV controllers in May without letting go too ballast.
The CGT and Sud Rail presented several strike notices from May 6 to 10, threatening the departures during the May 8 bridge. The claims are multiple, categorical and cover both problems of working conditions, in particular the consequences of a new planning and remuneration software.
The company’s management guarantees that a nearby social dialogue is carrying out with union organizations through “dozens of meetings.” But for DRH, the essential has already been done.
Many commitments have been made since the first mobilizations have been made on Facebook at the end of 2022 and “100% of these commitments were carried out, it is said”, it is said that it has two controllers systematically aboard TGV and “the trade union organizations do not dispute it.”
There is no verification for remuneration
On the issue of working conditions and the consequences of the new planning software, management admits that there are improvements for the visibility of rail workers. And to announce an external audit, a better visibility of six months during rest periods and a better response capacity after license applications.
On the issue of remuneration, on the other hand, management does not intend to eliminate the checkbook. The +2.2% increase for the implementation of 2025 during the last NAO and the repetitions that rail workers have received a 17% increase in three years, a figure disputed by certain unions and rail workers.
“Everyone benefits, a great effort has been made,” said Management, which also highlights an advantage of 1,300 euros for everyone this year.
“The SNCF obtains important benefits, railroad workers are productive, we are the most profitable in Europe: how it is abnormal to make the question of the distribution of wealth, we claim a part, it is normal,” says Fabien Villedieu, delegate in Sud Rail.
The management recalls that all the gains of the group are reinstanding in the investments in the railroad, but ensures “that everything is done to protect the purchasing power of railway workers with a greater increase than inflation. Nothing justifies that the file reappears again.”
However, the group insists on its desire to work on the deep reforms of the complex frame of remuneration in the SNCF. Because if the operator ensures that all rail workers perceive at least the minimum wage plus 10%, this remuneration includes a complete millfeuille of variable premiums that may disappear if, for example, the rail worker is licensed by illness, the basic treatment is quite low.
After these ads, CGT chemicals indicate in a brochure that the account is not there and requires “raising the balance of power.” It is not enough to be very optimistic.
Source: BFM TV
