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At the SNCF, more than 30 million working days lost due to strikes since the Second World War

2022-12-02T17:57:12.411Z


DECRYPTION – A few days before the annual wage negotiations, a strike leads to the removal of 60% of the TGV and Intercités this weekend. Users are used to these repeated social movements which transform their movements into a headache.


Christmas, snow, decorations, New Year's Eve, Saint Nicholas... For many, the end of the year rhymes with parties, gifts and family reunions.

In recent years, a new tradition, much more dreaded, seems however to have imposed itself: the fear of a strike at the SNCF.

Tenacious, this custom returns almost every month of December, with the regularity of a metronome: since 2018, only the Covid-19 pandemic has managed to erase it.

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Rebelote in 2022. The surprise strike which led to the cancellation of 60% of the TGV and Intercités this weekend inaugurates the fourteenth month of December disrupted on the French rail network in less than twenty years: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021. Strike notices are already threatening to torpedo travel on Christmas and New Year's weekends, at a time when French criss-cross the country to find their loved ones.

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Source: lefigaro

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