DECRYPTION – One month before Christmas, railway workers are preparing to strike on Thursday to obtain juicy salary increases. And this even though their remuneration has increased much more than that of private sector employees.
When it comes to social protest, SNCF railway workers never seem short of imagination. The proof is with the “warm-up strike” of twenty-four hours planned by the inter-union CGT Cheminots, Unsa-Ferroviaire, SUD-Rail and CFDT Cheminots this Thursday. The intention is clear: to put ourselves in working order and prepare people's minds before the unlimited and renewable strike scheduled from December 11. The railway workers know well that the government and the management of the railway operator hope to remove the specter of a new walkout at Christmas. “The minister would not understand that the French are blocked”warned the government's transport manager, François Durovray, on RFI, using the third person for the occasion. His speech comes a few days after the statements of SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou in the Tribune Dimanche urging railway workers to “stay on the side of the French” by renouncing a strike that he…
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