A round table is scheduled for that day, between the management of the company with public capital and the unions.
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Three SNCF unions, the CGT Cheminots, Sud-Rail and the CFDT Cheminots launched, Friday, June 24, a call to the strike for Wednesday July 6, the day before school holidays, and day of a round table planned with the management of the company with public capital. Like many French employees mobilized in France in recent weeks, they claim a general and urgent increase in wages to deal with inflation, which could reach 5.9 % over a year, in June, according to new forecasts of the INSEE.
“At the SNCF, there has been no general increase in wages since 2014 and, when we ask for compulsory annual negotiations [Nao], we are told to wait for the end of the year. But There is an emergency, the employees need measures now! “, Cédric Robert, federal secretary of the CGT Cheminots. UNSA will decide Tuesday, June 28, after an exceptional federal council, if it is associated with the movement.
The unions have arrested management on wages, several times, in recent months, while the minimum wage, indexed to inflation, increased automatically. At 1 er May, he took 5.9 % over a year. “And it was not at all transposed on the wage grid of the SNCF! Today, the first levels are caught by the SMIC!”, Lands Eric Meyer, Federal Secretary of South Rail, who takes the Example of a beginner stripper: “When he is recruited, he has four months of training, and very important legal and operational responsibilities, because the slightest error can cost lives. And he starts at 1,350 euros, 50 euros per month more than the minimum wage! that we are not surprised to have recruitment difficulties! “
” 7 % below the minimum wage “
On June 16, the CGT, UNSA, Sud-Rail and the CFDT were united to send a “request for immediate consultation” to management, a sort of “social alarm” procedure to avoid a conflict . “Instead of receiving us, all together, within three days, as the regulations want, the management received us in bilateral, then returned us to this round table of July 6, which we will know what they will put on The table! “Explains Cédric Robert.
On the management side, if we recall that categorical (low wages, certain trades) measures increase in remuneration have already been taken, we recognize that there is a “purchasing power subject”, in particular among railway workers in status (110,000 out of 140,000 people). “Entrance wages are very low, now some are 7 % below the minimum wage, for jobs with constraints, 3 × 8, night work, weekend work,” explains a good connoisseur of the file. “With inflation at more than 5 %, we will not be able to be content to wait for the end -of -year NAO and a revaluation in January 2023”, estimates a close to management.
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