The executive wants to learn lessons from the SNCF controllers' strike.
“
Faced with a situation which is new, we need to have new methods of reflection
”, declared this Wednesday the spokesman of the government, Olivier Véran, at the end of the last Council of Ministers of the year.
Cenacle during which Emmanuel Macron would have asked his executive to "
consider the establishment of a framework to ensure the continuity of public services in all circumstances
".
This request from the president aims to deal with the new type of movement with which the railway company is confronted here: a collective of controllers which was created online, and which acts outside the traditional trade union field.
"
It's quite different from what we are used to seeing
", conceded Olivier Véran, who underlines that these are "
personal decisions of individuals who can still change
".
“
And we invite them to change
,” he added.
A “new type of movement”
“
In parallel
” with this call, the spokesperson assured that the government was taking “
its responsibilities
”.
First in the short term, "
by developing all the alternative routes of circulation to allow French people deprived of trains to be able to find their families
".
Then in the long term, by evoking “
the need for the future to take into account this new type of strike movement which escapes social dialogue and which has a severe impact on the permanence of access to a public service
”.
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"
We see that an essential public service like that of the train is hit almost overnight and has a harsh, unfair and unnecessary impact on the lives of our fellow citizens
", insisted Olivier Véran again.
Adding: “
It invites us to reflect.
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