Is there a “dark week” in SNCF trains? Several categories of railway workers, including drivers and controllers, have presented a strike notice for the period from May 6 to 10, superimposing a period of important exits in the seasons for the May 8 bridge. A few days before the start of the movement, the negotiations between the management of the SNCF and the unions in question, mainly southern rail, seem to be blocked.
“We still have every weekend so that things can move forward,” said the minister responsible for transport this Friday morning, Philippe Tabarot, at BFMTV-RMC. “I heard that some say that there have been no negotiations,” but “this has already been the case for some time,” said the minister, evoking “more than thirty discussion and negotiation meetings.” SNCF management “will make the right decisions” in “the general interest,” he continued.
In detail, team agents will be on strike for 48 hours from May 6, while drivers will get involved there from May 7. The controllers presented a notice from May 9 to 11. With respect to claims, drivers and controllers denounce the implementation of a new planning software that, according to Sud Rail, “constantly modifies” and “without prior notice” the work weeks of the agents. The controllers also claim an increase of 100 euros per month of work bonus and the security of this premium.
Planning software
On some issues, including the new planning software, “I think management can advance and advance,” said the Minister of Transportation. “On the other hand, we are still discussing salary problems when we leave the obligatory annual negotiations […]These are discussions that are impossible to have […] In a peaceful and fair social dialogue, “he said, saying, however, that the strike was” always avoidable. “
For the trade unionist, there were “only discussions” with management. However, “to avoid a conflict, it is necessary to open negotiations and find an agreement, that the company’s management always refuses to do,” he insisted. Otherwise, “there is a good possibility that there are strong disturbances” in the rail network next week. “Only our statements respond […] And the trains will lead in a few days without problem, “Julien Troccaz warned.
This Wednesday, the CEO of the SNCF tried to unlock the situation through an open letter to the railway workers, which unwinds the measures established and scheduled by the company, including the salary increases “higher than inflation” and an agreement on early cessations of the activity, and that returns to the lathe question of the new planning software, promise that the work groups “will be gathered
Break down
But Jean-Pierre Farandou also mentioned a possible trusted breakdown with users and the weakening of the group if these different attacks interrupted the bridge of 8 in May. “How will our passenger customers react, who give life to the business buying trains tickets?” He asked, saying in particular that we could not “blame [aux] Traveler customers to choose from, next time, another transport solution. “
“It is a salary conflict, since in thousands of companies today in France,” he wanted to qualify Axel Person, general secretary of Railway Workers of CGT of Trappes and Rambouillet, on the BFMTV set. “There is no large industrial company in France that has not experienced a strike almost every year,” said the unionist Ile -of -scoce as an example, but the “particularity” of a strike within the SNCF is its “media coverage.”
“It is a national company present throughout the territory and, therefore, necessarily has a very powerful impact,” according to Axel Person.
Source: BFM TV
