Towards periods when striking will be prohibited?
The Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with Parliament Marie Lebec did not rule out “sanctuarizing” times when disengaging would be prohibited in transport in the name of the “public service mission” of the SNCF in particular.
This is a request from LR and the centrists in the Senate.
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“The question of protecting the right to strike is essential but I believe that we can question the use of the right to strike when we have a public service mission,” declared the Minister Delegate on Sud Radio, after discussions. departures on vacation marked, for zones A and C, by a well-attended train strike weekend.
“Reflection on the subject can be debated in the Assembly”
“There are times when we can consider that these periods must be protected,” she added, questioned about a proposed LR law, initially initiated by centrist senators, and providing in particular up to 60 days “during which there could be no strike notice”, for example during school holidays or during major events.
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For Marie Lebec, who admitted not yet having read the Republican bill, “reflection on the subject can be debated in the Assembly”.
“Do the modalities necessarily have to pass by law?
Can this be the subject of an agreement or other with the union representatives?
I believe that all options are open,” she said.
The controllers' strike ended this Sunday, after leading to the cancellation of one in two TGVs during the winter holiday weekend.
But SUD-Rail is threatening a new switchers' strike in a few days.
“Next weekend, we will be on strike if the management does not come to us,” declared this Sunday on BFMTV Vincent Pinot, federal secretary of SUD-Rail, 2nd force among the switchers, who filed a strike notice from Friday 11:00 a.m. to Saturday 11:00 p.m.