With about 80% of the drivers on strike this Thursday for the day of action against the pension reform (according to the unions), the SNCF indicates that “today’s traffic is in line with the forecasts announced”.
Although the inter-union must meet this afternoon to decide on the continuation of the movement, the SNCF announces in a press release that “the notice of strike within the framework of the national inter-professional social movement will end as scheduled tomorrow at 8 am”.
Some local disturbances tomorrow
For this Friday, “a return to normality is expected, with still some local disturbances in some regions. Traffic will be almost normal on the main lines.”
In detail, this Thursday there were 77.4% of strikers among passenger train drivers, 50.8% among controllers or 48.4% at the SNCF Réseau, where the changers and agents in charge of maintenance are located. of the tracks
At SNCF Voyageurs, the company in charge of running the trains, the general strike rate reached 45.7%, including 52.2% at TERs, with disparities by region.
In New Aquitaine, the most affected region, they are 61% of the strikers against 43.6% in Transilien in Ile-de-France, the region with the lowest rate of strikers.
Source: BFM TV
