The social discontent could take a more incandescent turn in January, when the government will unveil its pension reform.
Clouds on the horizon at the SNCF, after two years of dead calm. The social question that had disappeared from radar screens during the pandemic has come back to the fore. After the work stoppages of July 6, October 18 and November 10, a new strike is scheduled in the trains on December 7. This repetition of social conflicts should not degenerate and undermine the resumption of traffic, which has been very strong since the spring: if the group is moving forward again this year, it retains some scars from the pandemic which had caused it to lose three billion euros in 2020.
The CEO of SNCF is attentive to the situation: “We are talking about a public company in transformationexplain Figaro Jean Pierre Farandou.But any transformation is a questioning, it can cause concern. And on this backdrop specific to the SNCF, symbolized in particular by the opening up to competition, there are added problems that concern everyone (purchasing power and…
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