SNCF strike: all trade union organizations raise their notice for New Year

The management had put new proposals on the table on Thursday to prevent the next weekend of the holiday season to be paralyzed by strikes.

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New Year’s Eve should escape disturbances on rails. All the unions signed, Friday, December 23, an agreement with the SNCF management on Friday, December 23 and raised their strike notice, the SNCF announces in a press release.

Thursday evening, the management presented a new project of agreement with “additional measures” for controllers to union organizations. These had until Friday noon, to accept the agreement and withdraw their notice.

The railway Unsa, which had already withdrew his own, signed the agreement at the beginning of the morning, followed, in the morning by the CGT, the CFDT and South-Rail.

In detail, management had put new proposals on the table on Thursday: the creation of a director of the on -board business “to treat subjects and” irritants “and recognize the specificities of this profession , reinforced commitments on the course of careers and employment, 160 additional positions over 40 for sensitive trains, which are added to the 350 hires already acted for 2023. Finally, the specific compensation for controllers (which counts for the retirement) would drop from 600 to 720 euros gross annual.

Friday, the management of the SNCF welcomed the signing of the agreement and an exit from the conflict obtained “by social dialogue with the elected representatives of the railway workers”. It also salutes an “act of strong measures for a real recognition of the profession of chief board and its specificities”, in a press release.

“All the conditions are now met so that all of the heads of board regains work and that the company is again at the rendezvous of its travelers”, concludes the railway company.

/Media reports cited above.