2023-11-14 12:14:00
Travelers who bought a train ticket to join their family at the end of December may be concerned. Sud Rail threatens a social movement at the end of the year. In a letter sent on November 9 to the three other unions (CGT Cheminots, Unsa Ferroviaire, CFDT Cheminots), the organization calls for “building a powerful mobilization” on the “subject of wages”. An inter-union meeting might take place next week, following the end of the (ongoing) CGT Cheminots congress.
At issue: the management’s proposal during the round table on salaries, on November 8, as part of the obligatory annual negotiations (NAO). The agreement, subject to signature by next Tuesday, provides for an increase of “4.6% on average” and a “value sharing bonus” of 400 euros at the end of the year. Not enough for the unions. “In reality, it’s a 1.8% increase across the board, and that’s not enough! tance Julien Troccaz, federal secretary SUD Rail. We are constantly running behind inflation. Everything is increasing, and the railway workers are not coping! »
SUD Rail’s “central demand” concerns an increase of 400 euros for “all railway workers”, a measure estimated by the union at “a little less than 700 million euros” for the company. “When we see that it makes 2 billion euros in profits, and that it pays 1 billion to the assistance fund (which finances the maintenance of the rail network), this does not seem insurmountable to us. Our claim is legitimate! » continues Julien Troccaz.
The example of controllers last year
Last week, Philippe Bru, new HR director of the SNCF Group, affirmed that railway workers had benefited from an increase of “12% over the last two years”, and between “17 and 21% over three years” adding the proposal put forward the table during the last NAOs. Above, therefore, cumulative inflation, estimated by SNCF management at 13% over three years. “Elements of false and unbearable language, which aim to make railroad bashing,” annoys Didier Mathis, general secretary of Unsa Ferroviaire.
For the moment, no date for a mobilization has been set. SUD Rail intends, above all, to put pressure on to reopen negotiations before the end of the year. “It seems obvious that major departures on vacation will be subject to notice, if it comes to that,” confides a manager of another union organization.
Last year, the Christmas holidays were seriously disrupted by a social movement of controllers, launched by a collective on social networks. “They showed that to obtain important things, you had to put a lot of pressure,” says a union official. Management and travelers have been notified.
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