SNCF joints, especially Sud Rail and the CGT rail workers, agitated. Despite a strong mobilization (75% of the strikers according to Sud Rail), the management of SNCF travelers achieved invisible the TGV controllers attack movement (on the board or ASCT) that begins this Friday until May 11.
The operator even states that 90% of trains will work. Because to replace surprising controllers, SNCF travelers will greatly mobilize the group’s volunteer frames, trained in the boss missions on the board, called internally Vao. Coming from the professions of finance, human resources, communication … There are several hundred according to our information.
Very quickly, trade union organizations amounted to the niche to denounce “these strike switches” that will benefit from a premium of 50 euros per hour worked over the weekend.
“It is suffocating the wrath of rail workers”
“Put all the means to break the strike, to try to quell the wrath of rail workers and rail workers who have been mobilizing since the beginning of the week,” says Julien Troccaz, federal secretary of South Rail.
For Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, “Executives are pressured, they are obliged to replace the strikers or forced to declare themselves on strike.
Above all, the unions denounce the training in a hurry, carried out in a few days (against four months normally), which would constitute a risk for passengers supervised by these volunteers.
Especially because as a strike, there will be an advantage of this train reserve and not two as generally.
The accusations that go badly from the SNCF management side for whom the safety of travelers is a pillar and cannot bear to be accused of running the slightest risk.
It is not a discount training
Another source tells us a little more about the use of this reserve that does not date from yesterday and that not only concerns the controllers.
“The mobilization of executives to allow trains to circulate during social conflicts is a very old practice in SNCF. These mobilizations are traditional in the change stations and the realization of trains. Interested executives, all volunteers and the profession must follow the training, then regularly practice (in addition to their usual missions) to maintain their skills in rail safety and maintain their empowerment,” he explains. “They withdrew a better practical knowledge of developments in the profession of employees who supervise.”
Legal Framework
Finally, “other executives, who have not undergone training in a railway security profession, are always mobilized under the voluntary regime, to strengthen the information of travelers in the stations, during periods of large exits, social movements or special operations, such as last year, for the Olympic Games.”
The management also highlights the fact of seeing its executives “rubbing the CNA core” and rejects the accusations of obstacle to the strike.
A law on public service organization makes it possible to reallocate staff in case of social movement. However, unlike Ter or Interités, TGV is not a public service because it is not subsidized by the State. In addition, Jean-Pierre Farandou is the first to say it.
The practice has never been presented to the courts by the unions.
Source: BFM TV
