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The traffic will be generally normal Thursday at the SNCF, day of strike at the call of the CGT-Cheminots and SUD-Rail unions as part of the national day of interprofessional action, announced the public rail group on Tuesday.

At the RATP, where the CGT had filed a strike notice, the movement will have "no impact" on traffic, said a spokesperson for the management.

At the SNCF, the Transilien networks (trains from the Parisian suburbs) and Intercités will be very slightly affected by the day of action and will offer “almost normal” traffic, the rail group said in a press release.

"We do not see where we are going"

TGV traffic will be "normal", as will that of the TER which will however experience "some adaptations in the New Aquitaine and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions", according to this press release.

Internationally (Eurostar, Thalys, Lyria, etc.), traffic will also be “normal”.

The CGT, Solidaires, the FSU and youth organizations are calling for a strike and demonstrations on Thursday against job cuts and for wage increases.

During a press conference on Tuesday, the secretary general of the CGT-Cheminots, Laurent Brun, had underlined that the employees of the SNCF lived "a triple recovery: the recovery six months after a renewable strike lasts - this is when not even easy to repeat a day of strike after such an implication - a recovery after the holidays and a recovery after confinement ”.

But “the anger, which was pre-existing at the SNCF last year and at the beginning of the year, is re-emerging.

The prospects given to the railway workers, for the moment, they are zero, we do not see where we are going, ”he added.

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