Only two out of three trains will circulate this Christmas weekend due to a controller strike, according to the first estimates this Tuesday from the SNCF management. However, it is difficult to have more detailed traffic forecasts at this stage.
“Today we announced (the transportation plan) in advance. We don’t necessarily have the elements that allow us to plan the transportation plan very precisely because there are 48 hours left before an employee can declare himself a striker,” he recalled on BFMTV on Tuesday. Christophe Fanichet, executive director of SNCF Voyageurs. Whatever happens, customers will receive information about their train by SMS and email.
For Saturday and Sunday, the transport plan will be more or less the same as Friday, “with a slightly degraded scenario,” said Alain Krakovitch, director of TGV-Intercités.
A collective of controllers at the origin of movement
Since November, the SNCF has been fighting to establish a dialogue with the group of controllers behind this social movement. They demand a better recognition of the specificity of this profession.
The national collective ASCT (CNA) gathers more than 3,500 affiliates on Facebook and rejects any relationship with the unions, even if it had to rely on union organizations to present its demands and file notices.
Source: BFM TV
