While the mobilization, against the backdrop of debates around remuneration and the organization of work, should reach its peak with a strike by controllers which promised to be followed in the middle of the 8-May bridge weekend, the SNCF set up a paradeas our colleagues from the Parisian.
The company recalls that it implemented exceptional trade measures until Saturday, May 10.
In case of cancellation of an incredible TGV, Ouigo and TER train, A free exchange to another train circulating within seven days will be offered. It will also be possible to obtain a full refund in the form of a voucher, even for tickets which were non -refundable at the time of purchase.
“Volunteers” paid 30 € per hour
But it may be that the impact of the controllers’ movement is less important, at least on TGV. SNCF has decided to deploy Hundreds of “occasional support volunteers” (Newly) pour “Compensate for the absence of chiefs” declared strikers.
-These are executives which are usually in the offices and which have been “Trained in the controllers’ missions”detail our colleagues.
The southern federal secretary, Julien Troccaz, believes that it is a “way of breaking the strike and climbing the railway workers against each other” and that it only does “Strengthen anger”.
The Parisian explains that these VAOs are paid “At the service day and the minute minute”. An hourly rate at 30 € per week and € 50 on weekendseither “Three to five times more than for a chief of board”.
These occasional controllers will in particular be placed on the Atlantic and South-East axes. This parade does not concern by “daily trains”like ter.
