The controllers' strike, which leads to the removal of two out of five TGVs over the Christmas weekend and threatens the New Year's weekend, continues to make the political sphere react.

Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire is calling for a solution "in the next few hours", putting pressure on management.

“What we expect from the management of the SNCF today is that it finds a solution in the next few hours, I mean in the next few hours.

This is the responsibility of the management of the SNCF, it has the support of the State, it must find the ways and means to get out of this conflict", declared Bruno Le Maire on Sud Radio, expressing his "anger for customers deprived of Christmas holidays”.

Since November, the public railway company has struggled to establish a dialogue with the collective of controllers at the origin of this social movement.

They want better recognition.

Independent of the unions, they still had to rely on the latter to file notices.

The management has already proposed to increase the "work bonus" of the captains (official name of the controllers) by 600 euros per year, as well as an additional allowance of 600 euros gross per year.

Proposals that the strikers considered insufficient.

The strike will cost SNCF 100 million euros

“We have to be in a country where the rules are respected.

The rules are that there is a president of the public company who must discuss with the representatives of legitimate, responsible employees, who are called the unions, ”insisted Bruno Le Maire.

A way of clearly indicating that the responsibility for the canceled trains still weighs first on the strikers.

“I say at some point, enough with these repeated strikes (…) for our compatriots who are already in the midst of an inflationary crisis, (…) who are living their first Christmas without Covid, and who are entitled to rest and serenity,” he says.



“Fortunately, there are tens of thousands of railway workers (…) who see that it is bad for the company.

It will probably cost the company a hundred million euros, we do not need that at the moment and therefore everyone must resume this discussion, ”said the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, at the microphone of FranceInfo.

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