However, slight disruptions on regional lines should be expected.
Thursday's strike at the SNCF will have little impact on train traffic, with “normal traffic” announced for all TGVs and slight disruptions for regional trains, “with a national average of eight trains out of ten “, the railway group said on Tuesday.
Only the CGT-Cheminots and SUD-Rail unions are still calling for a strike, while the Unsa-Ferroviaire and the CFDT-Cheminots have given up after the signing of an agreement with management concerning the future of freight and TER railway workers transferred to subsidiaries by January 1.
The two trade union organizations, considered reformist, announced that they had obtained guarantees for the 4,500 employees transferred to two subsidiaries on January 1 (Technis a Hexafret).
Railway workers will be guaranteed to retain all of their rights for 36 months, while they negotiate a new working framework in the new companies created, Hexafret and Technis.
Cracked union front
Concerning the TER part, and while the first SNCF railway workers will be transferred to subsidiaries newly created where the market is open to competition within a week, the management of the railway group has committed to maintaining the rights for 24 months, instead of 15 until now.
Job security, that is to say the impossibility of being dismissed, has also been obtained for all employees, including contractual ones – until now only employees with the status, abolished in 2020, had it. right.
“It’s a shame,” reacted the federal secretary of Sud-Rail Fabien Villedieu after the announcement by the CFDT and Unsa.
“We could have wrested what we managed to obtain from Fret, namely the maintenance of rights for three years from SNCF Voyageurs (the company which notably manages the TER), which is not the case,” said he lamented.
In addition to the non-call for a strike by two unions, unlike 2022 and 2023 when wage demands were at the heart of the conflict (causing a hard strike in 2022), the slogans are today less mobilizing.
Olivier Chicheportiche with AFP
