INVESTIGATION – Since 1947, not a single year has passed without social movements disrupting the national rail network. As a result, an impressive number of lost working days. Le Figaro did the accounts.
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.
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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