Erik Meyer, federal secretary of SUD-Rail, responds to the CEO of SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou, who, in an interview with Worldwarns that he no longer wants “that we use the strike as an entry point for social dialogue”, calling into question SUD-Rail and its “ deliberate choice to accumulate strikes”.
The CEO of SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou, proposed to union organizations to debate a platform for social progress so that the strike is no longer the “entry point for social dialogue”. It directly implicates SUD-Rail in this strike strategy, since you have filed notice for the controllers and switchers. You wanted to answer him.
When he arrived in 2019, Jean-Pierre Farandou already said: “We must renew social dialogue. » Four years later, he said: “We have to do social dialogue differently. » It’s good that his record, on this point, is bad. Moreover, the figures demonstrate it.
Despite everything, I answered him: “Chiche, we agree, but there is a prerequisite. The company must keep its commitments, give itself the means and, in the SNCF group, all managers must be aligned with this doctrine. That’s not the case today. »
If there are so many social alarms and strike notices, it is because social dialogue does not exist. Look at the numbers. In 2023, unions filed 2,192 social alarms, which ended with 543 notices [hors mouvement de grève contre la réforme des retraites, un chiffre relativement stable sur quinze ans]. The reason is simple: it is the only way we have to raise demands on the ground at the level of SNCF establishments.
Since the Macron orders of 2018 which led to the merger of works councils, CHSCTs [comités d’hygiène, de sécurité et des conditions de travail] and staff delegations, there is no longer space for local social dialogue. At the field level, railway workers no longer have union contacts for their daily problems; resentments and non-responses accumulate, creating a degraded social climate.
This is probably why management is offering you another approach?
In the platform that Jean-Pierre Farandou offers us, there is no proposal on the subject of social dialogue at all levels of the company. To go beyond the announcement effect and break the habits established by his predecessor [Guillaume Pepy], something needs to be improved, concretely. Today, railway workers’ expectations are to be listened to, to have answers to their daily problems and demands. This cannot be done at the central level. It is not enough to occupy the media field and to please everyone to make people believe that we are acting and that we have things in hand to try to renew our mandate, which ends in May. .
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