The management of the SNCF, which organized a meeting on Wednesday to negotiate remuneration, notably proposed to the unions a “purchasing power bonus” paid in December, as well as measures that would come into force in 2022 or beyond, we learned from corroborating sources.
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At midday, several hundred railway workers demanding a
"general increase in wages"
had gathered at the call of an inter-union Unsa rail, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots in front of the SNCF headquarters in Saint- Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), where this meeting was organized.
The amount of the proposed “purchasing power bonus” will depend on whether or not a global agreement on remuneration
“until December 10” is
signed
by unions with at least 50% union representativeness, unions said. and management. In the event of
"a 50% signature"
, this bonus will reach 600 euros for salaries up to 1.5 Smic or 300 euros for those up to 3 Smic, while
"in the absence of a signature"
, the premium will drop to 500 euros for salaries up to 1.5 Smic or 250 euros for those up to 2.5 Smic, according to these sources.
Management has also conditioned other proposals on the signing of the agreement, such as an annual increase in the "work bonus" intended for
"all employees"
which will increase by 220 euros gross per year with signature against 200 euros without signature. , or even a
"revaluation of low wages"
which will benefit 61,000 employees in the event of signature against 30,000 without signature, according to a table of
proposed
"wage measures"
consulted by AFP.
For the management,
"it is important to promote the signature of the trade unions"
, which
"have the draft text in hand"
and
"until December 10 to decide,"
she told AFP.
Regarding career development,
"we have proposed adding a possibility of progression at the end of a career,"
she said.
"An act 1"
At Unsa rail, management's proposals are deemed
"encouraging"
.
"The group has made efforts, it has heard the anger of the employees,"
Florent Monteilhet, deputy general secretary of the second representative union of the SNCF, who will
"consult its structures"
told AFP
to decide whether to sign. or not the agreement.
SUD-Rail considers on the contrary that
"the account is not there"
and that the management
"
did
not hear this anger"
of the railway workers. For 2021, there is
"nothing on wages"
and
"for 2022, specific measures which will not catch up with anything"
, criticizes in a leaflet the third union of the group, whose members
"will decide on the follow-up to be given to these announcements "
.
The CFDT-Cheminots considers for its part that,
"without the mobilization of the railway workers"
, the management
"would probably not have made these proposals"
.
For its secretary general, Thomas Cavel,
“the dispute has borne fruit.
It is an act 1 ”
.
Before questioning its structures and making a decision, his union will wait for negotiations on the remuneration planned for this month in the company, then in the railway branch:
"We will see when we have the whole"
, he told AFP.
In addition to the inter-union rally, SUD-Rail called a strike on Wednesday, as did the CGT-Cheminots, the group's first union.
A movement that disrupted the traffic of regional trains, while that of long-distance trains was normal.
