At the SNCF, the strike against the pension reform enters its 29th day, thus breaking the record of 1986. While the mobilization still affects the circulation of trains and public transport in Paris, back on the main blockages within the transport company for 33 years.
1986-87: 28 days, without Christmas break
The strike in defense of wages and working conditions lasted from December 18, 1986 to January 14, 1987 at the SNCF, or 28 days without Christmas break. At the beginning of January, discontent gained in other public services, RATP and EDF in the lead, while at SNCF the movement faltered from the 9th. SNCF management was already talking about "modernization" while railway workers said return to work "rage in the belly" with the impression of not having been heard.
1995: 22 days against pension reform
The strike against Alain Juppé's reform project, which relates in particular to the retirement schemes of civil servants and public service agents, paralyzes the traffic of the SNCF and the RATP for 22 days, from November 24 to December 15, 1995 .
Officials also observe several days of strikes and protests are increasing. Alain Juppé finally gave up on pension reform while maintaining the rest of his Social Security recovery plan.
2010: 15 days for freight, 17 for pensions
François Fillon's government pension reform project, which plans to postpone the retirement age from 60 to 62, triggers an inter-professional mobilization that puts the SNCF on hold for 17 days in October. The railway company had already experienced two weeks of strike in April against a reorganization of its freight activity. Blockages at refineries, port terminals and fuel depots dry up one in three service stations at the height of the strikes in October.
2018: 36 days of strike over 3 months at SNCF
From April 3 to June 28, 2018, railroad workers are conducting a marathon strike in an unprecedented format, at the rate of two out of five days off work. Or 36 days in three months for a movement that disrupts travel during the spring school holidays, and coincides with certain strike days for wages at Air France (15 days between the end of February and May).
The movement is crumbling over time and fails to block the reform that will transform the SNCF into a public company and end the recruitment of railway workers from January 1, 2020.
Several two-week strikes
SNCF also experienced several two-week strikes, such as in March-April 2001 when the driving officers challenged a plan to reorganize the company, and in June 2014 against a railway reform. In June 2016, the railroaders had mobilized for the defense of their special regime, a few days before the Euro football and in full protest against the labor law.
Air France pilots went on strike for 14 days in September 2014 to oppose a development project for the low-cost subsidiary Transavia France.
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