Vacation departures will be seriously disrupted from Friday.
The objective is to ensure “one in two TGVs” this weekend, SNCF Voyageurs announced this Wednesday, affected by an angry movement from controllers expected until Monday morning.
The controllers are called to strike by SUD Rail and the CGT Cheminots, but also by the national ASCT collective (CNA).
After a marked mobilization at Christmas 2022, they are once again stepping up to demand pay increases, in the middle of the school holidays in zone C (Île-de-France) and at the start of those in zone A (Bordeaux, Lyon , Grenoble…).
SUD Rail had warned on Tuesday that the mobilization would be significant, counting on a figure "between 70 and 80%" of strikers on certain TGV routes, in particular the South East route serving the ski resorts of the Alps.
“Management did not know how to respond to our demands and calm the anger,” Julien Troccaz, federal secretary of the union, explained to Parisian on Tuesday.
The latter ideally demands an increase in the work bonus of 500 euros gross per month, but says he is ready to restart the trains "if the management drops 150 to 200 euros", i.e. more than double what the controllers had obtained during their Christmas 2022 mobilization.
Only the CFDT Cheminots had withdrawn its strike notice following a final meeting organized Monday evening in the presence of the CEO of the railway company, Jean-Pierre Farandou.
The latter assured Tuesday morning on RTL that the SNCF would do everything to maintain “continuity of service” on the lines and so that “all cities (are) served”, regretting despite everything that the group “cannot be completely at meeting” on this weekend of vacation departures.
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