CGT-Cheminots, UNSA-Ferroviaire, Sud-Rail and CFDT unions agree to follow the Confederal Call to stop work on Tuesday, February 7, but only the CGT-Cheminots and South-Rail want to continue the movement The next day.
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All SNCF unions have not yet specified their position. The main ones called on Wednesday on a third day of strike against the pension reform on Tuesday, February 7, according to the general watch, but only the CGT-Cheminots and South Rail want to continue the movement the next day, and the ‘indecision persists for Saturday February 11.
The leaders of the unions representative of the company-CGT-Cheminots, Unsa-Ferroviaire, Sud-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots-were to meet in the early afternoon, after a second day of strike that has fairly disrupted traffic despite a decline participation. The CFDT did not come but the four trade union organizations agree to follow the confederal call to stop work Tuesday 7, the third day of unit protest, reported participants in the France-Presse agency.
The question of Saturday February 11 2>
The CGT-Cheminots and Sud-Rail maintain their call to strike the next day, on the 8th, without being followed by the UNSA and the CFDT, which stick to the watchword of the eight main French unions. “We all agree for the 7th. The CGT and South make the 7 and 8. After, the question arises of 11”, a Saturday of vacation departures from zone B – also on weekends in the middle of Those of zone A-explained Didier Mathis, secretary general of the Unsa-Ferroviaire, who “calls for mobilization, not on strike,” he said.
“We will call a priori unit to demonstrate 11,” added Cédric Robert, spokesperson for the CGT-Cheminots. “Regarding the 11th, we have debated the possibility of not having a call to strike at the SNCF on this day and to have a simple call for demonstration,” said Federal Secretary of South Rail, Erik Meyer .
“We do not want to block the crossover of the holidays”, especially since “the objective of a call on February 11 is not so much the percentage of strikers as having in the street All employees who do not have the financial capacity to go on strike and respond to calls during the week, “he added. The position of the unions may be specified for Saturday 11 “by the weekend or [at the] beginning of next week”, according to him.
to bend the government
The CFDT-Cheminots wants to be, for its part, “fully [registered] in the inter-union approach”, according to its secretary general, Thomas Cavel. “For the moment, we want to succeed on the 7th. (…) Each step is important,” he said, remaining vague on the position of his organization for the 11th. The union had however called in a press release on Wednesday morning, “massively mobilized by the strike and the demonstration on Tuesday, February 7, then on Saturday 11”.
The SNCF had to remove a third of TGVs, almost all intercities, three quarters of TERs and up to 90 % of the Parisian suburbs on Tuesday, on the second day of protest against pension reform. The level of strikers was down, to 36.5 % against 46.3 % on the first day, January 19.
Erik Meyer remains “convinced” that a renewable strike “will bend this government”, but the railroad workers do not want to go on strike without being followed by other mobilized sectors, he noted, without giving date.