Dozens of meetings between the management of the SNCF and the unions will not be enough to clear the social conflict. It is now certain that company agents will be on strike on Monday, May 5, without it being possible to anticipate the extent of the disturbances for the big weekend of 8-May.
We should speak of strikes, in the plural, since two of the four union organizations representative of the historic company have initiated distinct movements. Sud-rail enjoins the controllers (trains sales agents of trains, or ASCT in house jargon) to stop work on May 9, 10 and 11, and the drivers to be released on May 7. The CGT, it, “Call for action all controllers or driving officers from May 5”.
The movements are distinct, but they are not unrelated. At the beginning of April, Sud-Rail first filed a strike notice that the union ensures that he “Coconstruity” With the National ASCT Collective (CNA), an informal group and feared by controllers, which has become federated on Facebook and was the source of disturbing strikes in 2022 and 2024. The CNA ensures, for its part, being on the initiative of the movement. But, as powerful as it is, this collective cannot file a strike notice, a prerogative that only the four representative unions of the historic company enjoy.
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