One week after the big mess of holiday trips disrupted by a movement of railway workers without notice, the pressure does not fall on the SNCF.
The social climate does not manage at the SNCF, with walkouts that are multiplying here and there and exasperating passengers.
A week after the big mess of holidays disrupted by a movement of railway workers without notice, the pressure does not fall. With walkouts in the west region TGV maintenance center and TER strikes in the South. So many movements that penalize users once again. And that looks like a farewell gift to Guillaume Pepy, who is living his last week at the head of the SNCF. Or, perhaps even more, to a message of welcome to his successor Jean-Pierre Farandou. For the leadership has let down the ballast in recent days with for example the acceleration of 200 hires to security positions, the growl does not weaken.
Unions play the balance of power.
A new direction is coming, it's classic. We take its marks. The CGT and SUD-Rail have chosen the field of security. They lead the fight on the systematic presence of a controller in the TER. And they protest against the deployment of equipment that allows trains to be driven as an agent alone. Proven equipment, says the management: in fact, they have existed for thirty years in Ile de France! But the protest unions say they have a popular motive of claim. Claim a pretext, certainly, but that arrives on the soil that is fertile to the SNCF. End of the status for new entrants on January 1, opening to competition, disruption of trades with the digital and of course pension reform in line of sight ... The new boss of the SNCF arrives on slippery ground.