New trouble on the trains on Wednesday, May 31? Indeed, the CGT Cheminots has presented a notice of strike for this date. This time it is no longer a question of demonstrating against the pension reform but of pressing for substantial salary increases.
In fact, this strike will be organized on the day of the national round table on wages organized by the SNCF.
The other three unions (Unsa Ferroviaire, SUD Rail, CFDT Cheminots) call a simple “meeting”.
In a press release, the CGT Cheminots regrets that “the salary situation of railway workers continues to deteriorate. It is no longer sustainable.”
And to warn: “significant general wage increases must be achieved! The national table of May 31 must be pressured by the railway workers!”
Management self-satisfaction
Justifying this request with galloping inflation, the CGT recalls having already alerted management on this issue.
Received on May 11, they asked management to “convene, without delay, salary discussions” on general remuneration, but also on the revaluation of bonuses, the concession of a thirteenth month for all railway workers or a greater indexation of the wages of all railway workers to inflation”.
The CGT regrets that during this meeting, “management has been complacent, ignoring the real situation experienced by railway workers and their families.”
“This deliberately provocative attitude in an inter-professionally tense and professionally uncertain social context can only reinforce the anger of the railway workers and the determination of the CGT not to let anything go,” it can be read.
SNCF anticipates an average revaluation of 5.9%
Let us remember that last December, the management of the SNCF offered railway workers a salary increase of 5.9% on average in 2023 after the mandatory annual negotiations.
However, wages have increased by 2.9%, to which is added a “flat rate revaluation” of 600 euros gross per year, the increase in various bonuses (night work, Sundays, holidays) and the payment of 75% of the transport subscription instead of 50%.
Insufficient for the unions and in particular the CGT that considers that the account is not there before the “inflationary spiral” for several months.
“We did everything we could to eliminate the salary dispute as much as possible,” said the DDH of the group François Nogué last December.
Source: BFM TV
