A debate that risks tense up and provoking strikes?

The CGT-Cheminots and SUD-Rail demand the maintenance of free or reduced-price tickets from which railway workers and their families benefit, by promising to "do everything possible" to keep these "traffic facilities".

“Trying to provoke a national debate around this right is grotesque and irresponsible,” said the CGT-Cheminots on Monday, in a press release.

The first SNCF union "requires the maintenance of traffic facilities, without consideration", and "will do everything to ensure that this demand is satisfied", he promises.

Problem when transferring employees to rival companies

On Friday, the Minister Delegate for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari had considered that it was necessary to “discuss” the scope of these “traffic facilities”, in the event of the transfer of SNCF employees to rival companies, during the next opening in competition from rail passenger transport.

"In principle, I agree that the railway workers keep benefits in kind," said Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.

But "the perimeter is very wide," he added.

Currently, the beneficiaries of these free or reduced price tickets are active and retired railway workers, their partners, their children under the age of 21 or students, as well as their ascendants.

For SUD-Rail, there is "nothing to discuss or to negotiate", summarizes the union on Facebook.

"The SUD-Rail federation and the railway workers will do their utmost not to be stripped of their rights," warns the third SNCF union in a press release.

Unequal treatment between police officers and railway workers

The CGT-Cheminots and SUD-Rail also commented on the announcement on Friday of free train tickets for police officers from 2022, under an agreement concluded with the SNCF, which will make it possible to "better secure the trains", had indicated the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.

To travel for free by train, the police must be armed and report to the captain.

This free service has long been demanded by the police unions.

But for the CGT-Cheminots, "the attribution of a new right for a category of employees (...) cannot be done by removing this same right from those who, precisely, work every day to make the public service work. railway ”.

SUD-Rail for its part denounces a “populist”, “patronage” and “potentially dangerous” measure which “will bring armed police officers out of service, alone and out of procedures, in the trains of the SNCF group”.

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