In Paris and in the Paris region, the mobilization was strong Tuesday, October 18 and continues this Wednesday, due to tensions on purchasing power and housing in the region.
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Determined! One hundred and eighty railway workers met on Tuesday October 18 at the end of the quay 36, Gare du Nord, for an Interservices general meeting. And without hesitation, these southern militants, CGT and FO voted the renewal of the strike. At the watchword adopted Monday -South -Rail and FO started the movement at the very beginning of the week -namely “500 euros of monthly increase”, added another: “no salary below 2,000 euros “.
In the Paris region, we feel even more than elsewhere the pinch of inflation. The mobilization is very strong at the Technicentre du Landy, in Seine-Saint-Denis. According to Sud-Rail, which is very represented in this “factory” where Eurostar, Thalys and TGV trains are maintained and pass a test of tests, 480 agents out of 500 were declared strikingists. “The site is closed”, notes Denis Hoffmann, southern driver in Pontoise, in Ile-de-France. “They do difficult work, with wages somewhat superior to the minimum wage: when you repair an axle, you are in fat and it’s complicated. Inflation eats everything”.
As early as Tuesday morning, the strikers of this center had voted the renewal of the movement. When management requests them to wait for the professional elections at the end of November to start negotiating wages, they pretend to understand nothing in the cuisine of union discussions with management: “It is the railway workers who are strike and await answers “, Balance Stéphane Grand, Sud-Rail, in charge of the electric maintenance of Eurostar, Thalys, Inoui, Ouigo and even technical trains which control and open high speed lines. “Money, there are SNCF: we were told 1 billion profits in the first half.” “900 million”, corrects the HRD of the SNCF, François Nogué, for whom the two wages already granted will cost 500 million euros.
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In Paris and in the Paris region, the mobilization was strong and continues this Wednesday, due to tensions on purchasing power and housing in Ile-de-France. Chronic sub -ffectives (in particular on the North RER B line, where resignations are increasing), recruitment difficulties, the removal of stations or the reduction in rail safety hours are nourishing claims. Disturbances will also continue, with one train in two Wednesday, October 19 on the RER D and the northern portion of the RER B, as well as on the Transilians H, R and U.
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