The unions have decided not to penalize travelers and denounce “the demagogic controversies over the right to strike” launched, according to them, by the government.
The representative unions of the SNCF do not call for a strike on Saturday, the fourth day of interprofessional mobilization against the pension reform, but enjoin the railway workers “to participate in events throughout the territory“, they announced on Monday. With the exception of Île-de-France and Occitanie, most of the country will be on vacation on Saturday, the first day off for zone B. The unions have decided not to penalize travelers and denounce “demagogic controversies over the right to strikelaunched according to them by the government.
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“The government is already beginning to castigate strikes and blockades, pointing to the crossover of February holidaymakers hoping to ‘turn’ public opinion“Wrote CGT-Cheminots, Unsa-Ferroviaire, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots in a joint press release. “It’s a waste of time and it’s a bad calculation!they insisted. “We talk about pension reform and they answer us hardening the right to strike. They would like to make the movement unpopular so we are not going to give them this pleasure“, declared to AFP Fabien Dumas, federal secretary SUD-Rail. “There is also a second objective: to save strike days for employees because here we are on a middle-distance race and not on a sprint“, explained the secretary general of Unsa-Ferroviaire, Didier Mathis.
A strike is already planned for Tuesday at the call of all the unions of the public group. The SNCF plans to run one out of two TGVs on average and three out of 10 TERs, a slight improvement in traffic compared to last Tuesday’s strike. Wednesday, another day of strike is planned but this time at the call of only CGT-Cheminots and SUD-Rail. All the trade unions have planned to meet again to consider the continuation of the mobilization on Wednesday afternoon.
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