“Santa Claus, we want trains”: It was the front page of your newspaper on December 14, 2019. A long strike by railway workers was impacting traffic.
Closer to us, at Christmas 2022, 200,000 French people were unable to travel after a social movement by controllers.
At the SNCF, which has not had a year without a walkout since 1947, vacations often rhyme with social conflict.
Proof that the unions have consistency in ideas and a management of the calendar without qualms.
Once again, the French are the turkeys in this bad joke.
Either the reasons for work stoppages are linked to national issues (pension reform for example) or are internal to the company.
If they want to understand the cancellation of their trip, the curious user must delve into the social weather of the rail giant.
He thus discovers that his train sometimes remains at the platform because of union rivalries or the proximity of internal elections.
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