It is a strike that does not have much media echo. It should be said that it is not the travelers but the transport of goods. Since April 7, under the leadership of a local entity in Sud Rail, traffic controllers and Bourget Rail Freight Triage circulation, employees of the SNCF network, have been in a renewable and disturbing traffic.
They protest against scheduled publications are written “in a broader struggle against SNCF policy, which seeks to dismantle the railway burden. An antisocial and ecological antisocial policy,” said the site of the permanent revolution.
For Anasse Kazib, South Rail delegate in the perimeter, “it is a clear attack on our work and our working conditions, which would lead to considerable loss of security. In the case of the abolition of the Aigitor of Vilmbile, the consequences are clear, management would like to do the same job with a single agent instead of two currently.”
According to the union, management refuses at the time of giving in to the demands of the strikers who, therefore, seek to increase the balance of power.
Force report
Except that the consequences of this movement are beginning to be painful or even counterproductive, according to the French Railway Association (Afra), which brings together alternative operators to SNCF, Alliance 4F, which brings together the main actors in the railway cargo sector and the National Combined Transportation Group (GNTC).
It should be said that the area covers a significant part of the volumes transported by the rail load in France, because it serves the axes of North-Sur or this-west long distance.
In a joint press release, they denounce an “irresponsible attack movement.”
“This movement led by a single union unit is irresponsible in such a strategic sector for the freight activity,” says Alexandre Gallo, president of Afra and president and executive director of DB position France. “Although the load can recover the confidence of its customers, this movement has generated strong instability for operators and customers for three months.”
Repercussions on customer service
“Such blocking of all rail companies is not acceptable,” said Raphaël Doutebent president of Alliance 4F and President and Executive Director of Europorte France. “Now, when the negotiations should have succeeded, a new application for premium (is it a matter of paying the days of strike?) It was out of the hat: we are too attached to the right to the strike to accept that it deviates from its object and penalizes the entire sector.”
At a time when the load in the SNCF has been completely reorganized with the creation of new entities and the liquidation of CNCF FRET, this movement falls badly. Criticized by customers carried out for their quality of service (essentially delivery delays), the railway freight has difficulties to bounce against the truck that today concentrates 88% of the flows of land products.
According to the regulator figures, in 2023, the rail load represented only 9% of the transport of goods in France against 15% in 2002 and 63% in 1962 …
Contacted by BFM Business, SNCF Network says that it does everything to support its customers and be related to them to reduce the consequences of this movement.
Source: BFM TV
