The two unions decided on Monday to leave the controllers the freedom to go on strike, without collectively calling on the weekends of the holiday season.
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Trains could finally circulate without disturbances during the holiday season. The CG-Cheminots and Sud-Rail unions chose, Monday, December 19, not to call the controllers’ strike for Christmas and New Year weekends, while maintaining their notice in order to leave everyone the opportunity to join or not to movement.
“We have decided to leave our union tool available” to allow those who wish to go on strike, confirmed Sud-Rail, while the CGT also intends to leave the opportunity to its members of “S” ‘Implicate in the approach “.
Salary compensation and revaluation
The heads of board, official name of the controllers, gathered outside of any union framework within the “National ASCT collective” (CNA), have been demanding measures for several weeks to improve their career and salary revaluations. SNCF travelers had proposed, after a round table on December 8, to increase the work bonus of controllers by 600 euros per year, part of which would be integrated into the salary in 2024, as well as an additional compensation for 600 euros gross per year. Other specific measures for advancement have been put on the table in order to facilitate the career course of chiefs of edge.
After wanting to consult its members on Facebook to decide on the follow -up, the “Collective National ASCT” noted “many frauds and attempts to manipulate the vote” which led him to cancel the ballot and left care to unions to probe their members.
The CFDT had still not made its position on Monday while the Unsa-Ferroviaire raised its notice on Friday, considering that the proposals of the SNCF management were “of a very good level”. Sud-Rail, which reports that his consultation “will not have made it possible to identify a majority position”, still invites the management of the SNCF to “raise its proposals to allow the appeasement of the situation”.
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The situation will be much more tense under the Channel. The Eurostar trains, connecting Paris and Brussels to London, will not run on the English side on December 26. The Franco-British high-speed line will indeed be closed due to a strike at the call of the RMT transport union.
“We did everything we could to get access to the British high -speed line the day after Christmas – as we did every other RMT strikes this year – and we have clearly told them The impact that this will have for those who have reserved their trip, “deplored the director of Eurostar operations on December 16, Bertrand Gosselin, adding that no employee of his company will be on strike.
On December 26, or Boxing Day, marks in the United Kingdom the kick-off of the sales. In a context of inflation which borders 11 % in the country and pestes the purchasing power of the British, the strike movements are multiplying in many sectors, including railways and health. A strike by employees of Network Rail, the public manager of the Ferré network, is scheduled from December 24 in the evening to December 27 in the call of the RMT union.