SNCF: significant salary increases over the last three years. Between 2020 and 2023, the payroll of all the company's employees increased by 1.5 billion euros.
To avoid the strike, the unions demanded between 150 and 200 euros more per month. Jean-Pierre Farandou, the CEO of SNCF, has promised a 400 euro bonus on the pay for the month of March. However, controllers have benefited from numerous gestures in recent years. And he insisted: “How do we increase controllers by more than 11%, when they have already had an increase of 500 euros in two years? We can clearly see that…”