Paris (AFP)
SUD-Rail denounced Tuesday a "permanent social plan" to the SNCF "for some years" and "rebels against the promised aggravation of the social situation" with the arrival of a new boss and the entry into force of the railway reform.
After a "social assessment still catastrophic" in 2018, the future boss Jean-Pierre Farandou "promises worse", deplores SUD-Rail in a statement. Successor to Guillaume Pepy at the head of the SNCF, Mr. Farandou should take up his new duties around November 1st.
"Now, on the pretext of the opening to competition and the break-up of the company SNCF into five companies anonymous" in January with the railway reform, "the pressure is even stronger," adds the third union of the SNCF .
Mr. Farandou "multiplies the announcements of plan of increase of the productivity, extreme versatility, savings and deletions of posts", but "not a word" about "the catastrophic health and social situation of the employees" and "their suffering even as two railroaders have killed themselves again this weekend," the union indignantly.
In 2018, about 2,700 positions were eliminated in the public rail group where resignations increased by 34.3% compared to 2017, while conventional breaks increased by 86% (they doubled among employees cheminot) and the layoffs increased by 27%, according to the "Social Review 2018" established by the management, cited by the union and that AFP was able to consult.
SUD-Rail, which joined with other unions the call for an indefinite strike from December 5, launched by several unions of the RATP against the pension reform, says that it "already works to build a balance of power as wide as possible "to break" this permanent logic of social breakage ".
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