Is the 2022 Christmas season threatened by transport strikes? The situation is complicated on Christmas and New Year weekends at the SNCF where the CGT-Cheminots and Sud-Rail unions now allow each captain -official name of the controllers- to decide whether or not to join the movement launched by a collective . A first weekend of strike, from December 2 to 5, 2022, had led the SNCF to cancel 60% of its TGV and Intercités. A catastrophic scenario that he wants to avoid for Christmas and New Year weekends. Since November he has been fighting to establish a dialogue with the group of controllers at the origin of the social movement, and that the unions try to frame in some way. The national collective ASCT (CNA) gathers more than 3,500 members on Facebook and rejects any connection with the unions, even if it had to depend on the union organizations to present its demands and present strike notices. The collective of controllers, which calls for a better recognition of the specificity of this profession, was received with the unions on December 8, 2022. At the end of this, the management proposed to increase the “work bonus” captains of 600 euros per year , part of which would be integrated into his salary in 2024, as well as an additional allowance of 600 euros gross per year. Other specific promotion measures have been put on the table to facilitate the professional development of employers. The social climate remains fragile at SNCF as the 2023 salary increase proposals formulated by management on December 7 during the annual mandatory negotiations (NAO), were only signed by one union, the CFDT, out of four. Management has proposed a series of measures that lead, according to her, to a salary increase of 5.9% on average, including a general increase of 2% for everyone. Measures considered insufficient by the CGT, Unsa and SUD-Rail. On the air transport side, Air France said it was not considering “cancellations at this stage”, despite a strike notice from the cabin crew unions Unac and Sngaf for the period from December 22, 2022 to December 2, 2022. January 2023. Conflicts have also disabled Air Antilles, Air Guyane, Corsair and Easyjet. The social movement should expand at the beginning of the school year, since all the RATP unions called on Wednesday to “continue and harden the strike movement from January 2023”, around the issue of wages but also of the pensions.
Source: BFM TV
