SNCF strike: traffic “very disturbed” in New Aquitaine

“Inoui and Ouigo TGV traffic will be interrupted on Friday morning but will be insured all afternoon and [the] evening for departures until 20 hours,” says SNCF.

Le Monde with AFP

The rail traffic will be “very disturbed” from Thursday evening to Saturday morning in the South West due to a strike of News Aiguilleurs, announced, Wednesday, February 17, the SNCF and the unions. Friday, the social movement “will strongly distort the circulation of the TERs throughout the New Aquitaine region, as well as the TGVs Inoui, Ouigo and intersected south of Tours of and to the News Aquitaine and Toulouse”, details a statement of the SNCF.

“Inoui and Ouigo TGV traffic will be interrupted on Friday morning, but will be insured all afternoon and [the] evening for departures until 20 hours,” says SNCF. The “circulations will be interrupted on the branch La Rochelle. Angoulême and Libourne will not be served”.

Social ℹ️WEIGHT SNCF AMATURES IN NEW AQUITAINE LE FREN. 18/02:
👉 @ tgvinoui and @ouigo: traffic … https://t.co/7ljcefchgq

– sncf (@sncf)

Concerning the Ter, traffic will be interrupted Thursday from 8:30 pm at the start and arrival of Bordeaux. Friday, “25% of the traffic will be provided mainly on the Limousin and the South Aquitaine” and there will be “no traffic in Poitou-Charentes and on the star of Bordeaux”.

“We have claims on working conditions, workforce and remuneration,” said Julien Bournique, South Rail union representative in New Aquitaine. “2022, it is the ninth year without a general increase in wages,” he added, also evoking a “chronic and important subferential at the level of newsletters in New Aquitaine. Agents are asked to do more ‘effort without professional or financial recognition “.

An earlier strike in New Aquitaine had disrupted the rail traffic in the region.

/Media reports.