Any further disruptions to be expected next week in transport? The CGT federation of railway workers has filed a national strike notice for all its services for May 31. A date which was not chosen at random since it is the day of the national round table organized by the management of the SNCF on the subject of salaries.
“On May 31, it has to pay off! The salary situation of railway workers continues to deteriorate”, launches the CGT in a press release, calling on all railway workers “to assert their right to strike” and “to put pressure” on management for the next Wednesday.
Already on May 11, the union had been received with the other representative federations to ask management to convene salary discussions “without further delay”, specifies the CGT in its press release. Before continuing: “It is no longer tenable. We must obtain significant general salary increases”.
Among their demands, the CGT wants a general increase in salaries, the integration into the liquidable salary of all the elements of remuneration, the revaluation of work bonuses and equivalent measures for contract workers, the revaluation of bonuses, allowances and allowances or even the granting of a 13th month for all railway workers.
For the moment, only the CGT plans to mobilize en masse on the sidelines of this wage meeting. The other majority unions in the group did not file a strike notice. For its part, the SNCF does not seem to be aware of any strike movement “at this stage”, explaining that the next big social mobilization was expected on June 6.
In the aftermath of the traditional May Day demonstration, the “always united” unions had called for a fourteenth day of action on June 6, determined to “make themselves heard” by the deputies who will examine two days later a bill aimed at repeal the pension reform just enacted.
