The SNCF management announces strong disturbances on the Atlantic TGV line, due to a strike movement launched by three unions.
Le Monde with AFP
An atlantic TGV in three will be canceled on Saturday 23 and Sunday, October 24, and one in ten will be canceled on Friday, October 22, because of a call for the strike launched by three unions, announced Thursday, October 21 the SNCF in a statement.
The common strike notice of the CGT-Cheminots, South Rail and the CFDT-Cheminots will affect the traffic of the TGV and Ouigo TGV TGV axis, SNCF specified. This call runs from Friday noon to Monday noon.
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Negotiations with Trade Unions and Working Conditions “have been conducted for several days” and “could not find a favorable outcome at this stage,” said SNCF. “As a result, the transportation offer will be reduced this weekend on the TGVs Inoui and Ouigo from and to Brittany, the Pays de la Loire, the Center-Val de Loire, the new Aquitaine and Occitanie”, has -T it detailed.
“Every customer concerned is contacted to inform him about the traffic of his train,” said the direction. Travelers can “get refund or exchange” their ticket “for another time and this at no cost”, added the SNCF, which invites those “who can or who have not yet reserved to postpone their trip”.
Workdays “Always longer”
In a common leaflet, the CGT-Cheminots, South Rail and CFDT-Cheminots explain that, “for weeks”, they “continue to challenge the leadership on the growing discontent” of the trains drivers of the Atlantic TGV axis. The unions denounce, in particular, “notoriously degraded work days, resulting in particular of the calamitous management of the business side crisis”.
Working days are “ever longer”, while “living and working conditions deteriorate day by day”, with “a drop in average compensation”, denounce trade union organizations, which also protest Against “the decline in the workforce”, which entails “refusal of leave”. “The Cup is full”, they are incorporated, claiming “maintaining the number of lines”.