In particular, these calls concern South-West and Southeast TGV, and are respectively valid from Friday to Sunday, and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays of the three weekends of the school holidays.
Le Monde with AFP
Several calls for the strike were launched on different SNCF networks, including South-East and Southwest TGVs, for the first weekend of the Christmas holidays in particular, have we learned from union sources and of management, Tuesday, December 14th. The unions demand the improvement of working conditions, hiring to overcome downsizing, salary increases or “a Covid premium”.
“We will return to our eighth year of wage lock”, has so arguments Tuesday on BFM-TV Fabien Villedieu, South Rail Manager. “The ball, today, is in the management camp [which] still has the opportunity to hear this anger,” he said.
Controllers and stop agents (at the station) Southwest TGV are expected to strike Friday to Sunday by the CGT-Cheminots, South Rail, unsa-rail and fo-railway. For South-East TGV, South Rail, Unsa-Railway and Fo-Cheminots call on strike on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays of the three holiday weekends.
also in Occitania and New -AQUITAINE
In Occitania, unsa-rail, South Rail and the CFDT-Cheminots call the controllers to strike on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from next weekend. Scenario identical for New Aquitaine Ter, where the CFDT, South Rail and UNSA filed the same type of three-day notice from Friday. The employees of the Atlantic TGVs are called upon to strike by South Rail “from Friday.
In questioning the preparations filed, the SNCF management wanted to do “no comment”, while discussions with the unions continue. For its part, the government spokesman said to wish to “minor the impact of this strike for the French”.
“They want to be able to meet with a family at Christmas. We do not especially want to find themselves in crowded trains during Covid times because there are fewer trains to get around”, has Added Gabriel Attal on Franceinfo.
Other social movements
The week is already enamelled with other social movements at the SNCF: for example, Monday on the North TGV, in Normandy and the Line H in the Paris region, Monday and Tuesday on the ter of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Tuesday in the Pays de la Loire.
Thursday and Friday, several lines of Ile-de-France are concerned, such as RER B, C, D and E, or Lines H, K, N, P, R and U.
Show calls for only Friday have also been launched for the Alps controllers, the agents of the Lyonnaise and Brittany region. Finally, the employees of Newrest, responsible for the catering on the trains, are called to the strike “from Thursday” by the CGT and South Rail.