One in five employees was on strike on Wednesday July 6. The management responded with a revaluation revolving around 3.1 %. On the union side, dissatisfaction dominates.
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For more than two years that the railway world had not experienced such a mobilization. Wednesday, July 6, 20 % of SNCF employees strike for their wages and their purchasing power. A level that reached 47 %, on average, among drivers, with peaks in the region (where only two TERs circulated) and on the Transilian network of Ile-de-France (one in two train). We have to go back to the movement against the pension reform of December 2019 to find higher strike rates in the public railway group. The mobilization levels were then even more spectacular. The first day, on December 5, 2019, nine out of ten drivers had stopped work.
It is therefore a strong social warning – without being massive – that railway workers launched this Wednesday; A warning that the management, dozens of local conflicts that have flowed in recent times; A warning that she obviously heard. During a round table on wages, which was held at the same time as the strike, François Nogué, the director of human resources of the SNCF, proposed a significant salary revaluation, which should cost 290 million euros to the company.
The railway workers will benefit from an increase that will revolve around 3.1 %. “It is a median, said Mr. Nogué to journalists. This means that 70,000 railroad workers [out of 140,000] will have more.” This increase will reach 3.7 % for the smallest wages of the company and 2, 2, 2 % for executives. It will be retroactive at the 1 er April, but, for reasons of organization of the pay, the surplus of salary will not be affected by the agents until October, at the latest.
“The account is not”
Rather than increasing the index point by more than 3 % as in the public service, management has mixed a series of measures introducing a dose of progressiveness which allows this boost to low wages. There is a general increase of 1.4 %, but there is a fixed revaluation of 400 euros gross and a certain number of targeted increases. The premiums – key element of the remuneration of SNCF agents – will be revalued by 4 %, with a bonus for the railway workers of the first line (rolling agents, maintenance employees), who will see their night, Sunday and holiday premiums and output of penalty increased by 7 %.
The smallest hiring wages of execution agents, who were being caught up in the increase in the minimum wage, and for which the recruitment difficulties are the strongest, will be increased by 4 %. Other more marginal measures come in addition as a revaluation of the holiday premium, which goes from 400 to 500 euros, or an increase of 3 % of travel allowances. All of these measures are not replaced by compulsory annual negotiation (NAO), which will take place in December to possibly decide on other increases. “It is a calendar that opens up perspectives for the future,” said Nogué.
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