Three out of four TGVs should circulate on Monday, the last day of the SNCF controllers’ strike, before a total recovery of traffic the next day.
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After a mobilization weekend marked by the cancellation of 60 % of trains, a “return to normal” is expected on Monday. Three out of four TGVs should circulate on December 5, the last day of the SNCF controllers’ strike. Gathered in a collective outside the union framework, these agents – also called managers – have ceased the work since Friday to claim better recognition of their status.
Questioned Sunday evening by the France-Presse agency (AFP), a spokesperson for the SNCF evokes “a progressive return to normal on Monday”, and a total recovery of traffic on Tuesday. As the management of the rail group had announced on Friday, “new meetings” are scheduled for this week -Thursday according to the site of the Sud -Rail union -, “as part of the dialogue for weeks with union organizations about heads of board “.
Sunday, traffic was still strongly disrupted, with 60 % TGV and canceled intercities. With the exception of the CGT-Cheminots, all the unions (Unsa-Ferroviaire, South-Rail, CFDT-Cheminots and Fo-Cheminots) brought their support for the movement.
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To put pressure on the SNCF, the controllers also threaten to strike on Christmas and New Year weekends. Fearing disturbances during the holiday season, the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, Called Saturday for “collective responsibility”.
“We will do their best so that there is no strike at Christmas,” promised Nicolas Limon, one of the founders of the National ASCT collective (CNA), launched in September on Facebook and who now counts ‘Hui nearly 3,000 members. He told AFP on Friday that “more than 80 %” of the controllers would be on strike during the weekend.
The almost 10,000 SNCF edges, of which nearly 3,000 work on TGV and intercités, have an essential function in terms of traffic safety and travelers. Without them, trains cannot circulate. Beyond wage issues, the controllers feel “mistreated”, and claim better taking into account as well as an improvement in their working conditions, explained on Saturday On RMC Fabien Villedieu, Sud-rail union delegate.
“This is a strike that we have not seen arriving, neither we nor the unions,” recognized Thursday CEO of SNCF Jean-Pierre Farandou, during a conference organized by the magazine Challenges.
After this weekend of “temperature taking”, Sud-Rail hopes that concrete proposals will be made during negotiations next week, saying “to believe in social dialogue”, especially as Christmas approaches.
The month of December promises to be agitated at the SNCF: this mobilization occurs just before the start of annual negotiations for wages, which must engage Wednesday at the level of the group. The CGT, South-Rail and CFDT called for a “unitary strike” that day.