Will there be a Christmas strike?
Calls have been launched on various SNCF networks, including TGV Sud-Est and Sud-Ouest for the first weekend of the holidays.
But the Minister of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, wants to be optimistic.
He "hopes" for an end to the conflict by the end of the day, as he explained this Wednesday morning on RMC.
The unions are calling for the improvement of working conditions, hiring to compensate for insufficient staff, wage increases or even "a Covid bonus".
The controllers and stopover agents (at the station) of the TGV Sud-Ouest are called to strike from Friday to Sunday by the CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail, Unsa railway and FO-Cheminots.
For the TGV Sud-Est, SUD-Rail, Unsa railway and FO-Cheminots call for a strike on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays of the three weekends of the holidays.
Other social movements at SNCF
Same configuration in Occitania, where Unsa rail, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots call the controllers to strike on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from next weekend.
Identical scenario for the TER of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where the CFDT, SUD-Rail and Unsa have filed the same type of notice over three days from Friday.
The employees of TGV Atlantique are called to strike by SUD-Rail "from" Friday.
The week is punctuated by other social movements at the SNCF: Monday on the TGV Nord, in Normandy and the H line in the Paris region, Monday and Tuesday on the TER of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Tuesday in the Pays de la Loire...
Thursday and Friday, several Ile-de-France lines are concerned.
The traffic of the RER C, D, E and line R will be "strongly disrupted", according to traffic forecasts published Tuesday by the railway group.
Train traffic will be "very disrupted" on lines N and U, or "disrupted" on the RER B and lines H and P. Last week, strikes had already affected the traffic of several regional train lines in Ile-de-France.
Calls to strike only on Friday were also launched for the controllers of the Alps as well as the railway workers of the Lyon region and Brittany.
Employees of Newrest, in charge of catering on board trains, are also called on strike "from Thursday" by the CGT and SUD-Rail.
