While the interunion requires a new mass strike on Thursday, October 2, believing that the prime minister has not changed his budget approach, in the SNCF, the four representative unions decided to register again in this call.
“In the impulse of the interprofessional interunion, the Railway Federations of CGT, Undera Rail, South Rail and CFDT Railroad, the railroad workers call to mobilize massively, for the strike and on the street, on Thursday, October 2,” they can be read in a common brochure.
This time, the slogans are categorical, which could strengthen the mobilization of rail workers. During the September 18 movement, if many drivers of suburban trains in Paris, Interités or Ter had presented, 90% of the TGV had circulated after a low mobilization of their drivers.
“Austerity has become the rule” in the SNCF
Therefore, the SNCF unions denounce “austerity (which has become) in the rule” for the SNCF, the threat of “the rights and collective guarantees of the railway workers when opening to the competition and explosion of the company.”
They require “ruptures on the side of the SNCF” and “a general increase in wages and work premiums.”
“We are united and determined. Power and government have never been so fragile! Improve our daily life, change the unitary! “It’s time to hit very hard, let’s come from taking,” he says in BFMTV, Julien Troccaz, federal secretary of the trade union organization.
Source: BFM TV
