SNCF: Sud-Rail and the CGT maintain their strike notice for the holiday season


The unions had until Monday to formulate a response to the proposals that had been made by the management of the company.

Bad news for travelers who plan to take the train to find their loved ones during the holiday season. This Monday, the collective of SNCF controllers announced the maintenance of its strike notice for Christmas and New Year, with the support of Sud Rail and the CGT-Cheminots. The two unions have, in fact, decided Monday not to call the controllers’ strike for the weekends of Christmas and New Year while maintaining their notice in order to leave everyone the possibility of joining the movement or not.

We have decided to leave our union tool available to the collective by maintaining the notice. It is now the company that must formulate new proposals“, is it indicated in the press release of the union, while the CGT also intends to give the opportunity to its members to “get involved in the process“.

The unions (CGT-Cheminots, CFDT Cheminots, Unsa Ferroviaire and Sud Rail) had until Monday to formulate a response to the proposals that had been made by the management of the SNCF. For its part, the Unsa Ferroviaire decided on Friday , to lift its strike notice.The position of the CFDT Cheminots is not yet known.

The captains – official name of the controllers – have indeed gathered, for several weeks, within a collective, outside of any trade union framework, baptized “ASCT national collective(CNA) to demand measures to improve their career development and salary increases. In support, the main SNCF unions had filed, at the end of October, a notice for the periods from December 23 to 26 and from December 30 to January 2, 2023.

In response, SNCF Voyageurs had made several proposals at the end of a round table on December 8, in order to appease their anger. It proposed to increase the work bonus for controllers by 600 euros per year, part of which would be integrated into the salary in 2024, as well as an additional allowance of 600 euros gross per year. Negotiations do not seem to be over. A controllers’ strike on the first weekend of December led the SNCF to cancel 60% of its TGV and Intercités trains. Nearly half of the 9,000 captains then went on strike.


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