After a Christmas weekend marked by the cancellation of many TGVs, the SNCF management managed to save the New Year weekend thanks to an agreement struck at the last moment with the representatives of the captains, the controllers.
This social movement, organized by a non-union collective, posed many problems for the SNCF (and the government) who had to deal with this headless group that expresses itself on social media.
Will this agreement put an end to this social rebellion that escapes the intermediary bodies that are the unions? Not really.
“Progress but…”
If the ASCT collective Facebook page was closed for a while, it’s back online. When questioned, one of its members explains to BFM Business that the group is “on pause (because) we have made progress.”
In the agreement, “it is stated that the management will work on it,” observes the captain.
Therefore, the latter should remain active next year to the chagrin of the SNCF management and the unions that wonder about this group, even if most of them have been forced to take it into account in the negotiations.
Unions have “waited for our approval”
In our columns, Didier Mathis, head of UNSA-Ferroviaire (executives) thus mocked “statements that say it all and their opposites, which sometimes have neither tail nor head, such as a request to share profits with the SNCF “. “To make claims, they still have to be legitimate,” he said.
Remember that only representative unions are allowed to participate in discussions with the SNCF, but some have “invited” members of the collective to their delegations.
But it was this group that decided on its own to lift the notice for New Year’s weekend, after an internal vote that, according to our information, leaned more towards a strike, for which the SNCF management had to wait until The last friday.
There was “no pressure from the unions (Sud Rail, CFDT and Unsa), they waited for our approval”, confirms the member of the collective.
Source: BFM TV
