Rail traffic will be
"very disrupted"
from Thursday evening to Saturday morning in the south-west due to a strike by New Aquitaine signalmen, the SNCF and the unions announced on Wednesday.
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Friday, the social movement
"will greatly disrupt the circulation of TER throughout the New Aquitaine region, as well as TGV Inoui, Ouigo and Intercités south of Tours from and to the New Aquitaine region and Toulouse"
, indicates a press release from the SNCF.
“Traffic of the TGV Inoui and Ouigo will be interrupted on Friday morning but will be provided all afternoon and evening for departures until 8 p.m.”
, specifies the SNCF,
“traffic will be interrupted on the La Rochelle branch.
Angoulême and Libourne will not be served.
TGV traffic is maintained in an almost normal manner Thursday evening.
Regarding the TER, traffic will be interrupted Thursday from 8:30 p.m. on departure and arrival from Bordeaux.
Friday,
“25% of traffic will be provided mainly in Limousin and South Aquitaine”
and there will be
“no traffic in Poitou-Charentes and on the star of Bordeaux”
.
“Working conditions, workforce and remuneration”
"We have demands on working conditions, staffing and compensation
," explained Julien Bournique, Sud-Rail union representative in New Aquitaine, to AFP.
“2022 is the 9th year without a general salary increase”
, he added, also referring to a
“chronic and significant understaffing at the level of switchers in New Aquitaine.
Agents are asked to make more effort without professional or financial recognition
.
A previous switchmen's strike in New Aquitaine had disrupted rail traffic in the region at the end of January.