“The French know that the strike is a right”
, but
“also that working is a duty”
, thundered the Prime Minister on Wednesday during a trip to Villejuif (Val-de-Marne).
While a strike by SNCF controllers is looming this weekend, Gabriel Attal regretted
"a form of habit, with each vacation that arrives, of having the announcement of a strike movement"
at the railway operator.
An observation widely shared by Éric Ciotti, guest of the TF1 morning show this Thursday.
“We must stop taking the French hostage.
Since 1947, there has not been a year when the SNCF has not been on strike, and always at decisive moments, at times when families get together, go on vacation
,” said the president of the Republicans. (LR).
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A central demand of the strikers, the increase in salaries – the unions are demanding between 150 and 200 additional euros per month – brings the MP for Alpes-Maritimes out of his element.
"It is shameful.
(...) They have had an increase in 3 years of 21%, 500 euros per month for 2 years of increase.
This permanent escalation, at some point we have to stop
,” he said.
“They do not realize the harm they are doing to this national enterprise, to which the French are attached.
They are destroying their business and they are unworthy of the French
,” lamented Éric Ciotti.
“Faced with these blockages, faced with these indignities, we must go further
,” declared the boss of the LR.
“Today we are going to very clearly establish legislative texts to regulate (the right to strike)
,” he announced.
A bill from centrist senators has already been tabled to this effect on Wednesday to control the right to strike during school holidays.