The SUD-Rail union decided, this Friday, to maintain its call for the signalmen's strike covering the first weekend of the Christmas holidays.

SNCF signalmen operate the network: without them, the trains cannot run.

They demand better recognition of their profession and an improvement in their working conditions.

"There is still time for the SNCF management to continue negotiations if it wants to avoid a major conflict", insisted SUD-Rail in a press release, calling on traffic officers to continue to "massively file" their declarations of intent, required to go on strike.

This press release was published after a day of negotiations with the management of the SNCF whose proposals "border on contempt", judged the union.

The CGT-Cheminots, for its part, described the management's proposals as "insufficient" and assured that it was thinking about calling for a national movement even if at this stage it has not submitted a notice, like the other representative organizations. , Unsa-Ferroviaire and CFDT-Cheminots.

Unsa-Ferroviaire, which participated in the round table, described these measures as “real progress”.

Ten minutes each service

The management proposed to the unions to allocate the signalmen a ten-minute "remission from service" each time they take service.

Traffic officers, who work in 3x8 shifts, must indeed arrive or leave later at the time of the relief to pass the baton to the next team.

SUD-Rail required twenty minutes.

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Another measure put on the table by SNCF Réseau: “a fixed monthly allowance of 60 euros (gross)” paid from June 2023 and which will be permanent in order to recognize the specificities of the profession.

A measure "far from responding to our claim (300 euros per month in cash for retirement and maintained in the event of incapacity)", indicated SUD-Rail.

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