Trade union organizations have decided to maintain their strike notice for the first weekend of the Christmas holidays. SNCF management announces traffic forecasts Wednesday at 5 pm
Le Monde with AFP
While several calls for the strike had been launched on Tuesday on various SNCF networks, the management announced, Wednesday, December 15, that negotiations with the South Rail, CGT and UNSA unions had failed on South-East TGVs, Anticipating a “very degraded” traffic from Friday, for the first weekend of the Christmas holidays. Forecasts must be published “at 5 pm”.
The direction “regrets that the negotiations carried out for several days (…) have not avoided the social movement at this stage” and “remains attentive,” she said . The latter “responded positively to the requests made by the trade union organizations”, who “make the choice of maintaining” of their notice of strike, added. The unions demand the improvement of working conditions, hirings to overcome a downtime, salary increases or “a premium Covid”.
Other calls to strike on the territory
The Government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, said Monday wishing 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,” said Attal on FranceInfo.
Negotiations are still ongoing on calls to strike on Southwestern TGVs. In Occitania, unsa-rail, south-rail and the CFDT-Cheminots call the controllers to strike on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from this weekend too. 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.