As the end-of-year holidays approach, François Durovray wants to be reassuring after discussions with the SNCF unions. The latter filed a notice of a renewable strike which began on Wednesday.
Ensuring that travelers can celebrate the end of year holidays with family. This is the wish of the resigning Minister of Transport, François Durovray. Invited Thursday, December 12 on Sud Radio, he affirmed that “the trains will run at Christmas”.
“The current social movement will have very little impact, with normal traffic on the main lines,” he said.
At the end of November, the SNCF union organizations called for a renewable strike starting on Wednesday, December 11 at 7 p.m. The unions want a moratorium on the dismantling of Fret SNCF: 4,500 employees must be transferred on January 1 to two new companies, Hexafret and Technis, but also to protest against the terms of opening regional lines to competition.
While waiting for the appointment of a new Prime Minister, Sophie Binet, leader of the CGT, maintains the pressure: “The month of December promises to be red and it is not the red of Santa Claus. It has been six months since the CGT warns about layoff plans Our warnings are not heeded,” she declared on RTL on Thursday, calling for “emergency measures” including a moratorium on layoffs.
François Durovray listening
The resigning Minister of Transport wants to be reassuring after the discussions with the unions: “Regarding their demands, we discussed them and this resulted in the signature of two unions [la CFDT et l’Unsa – NDLR] of the four, and therefore a limitation of the strike”, he indicates.
Nearly 120 rallies and demonstrations “for employment and industry” are planned for Thursday in France at the call of the CGT, joined by Solidaires and the FSU, in response to the wave of social plans announced in the employment sector. 'industry.
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