Paris (AFP)
Only 30% of TGV will circulate Monday on the Atlantic axis due to the continuation of a strike of 200 agents specializing in maintenance in the Paris suburbs, told AFP Sunday the director of TGV Atlantic, Gwendoline Cazenave.
"Until today we have managed to maintain a very significant transport plan, with 80 to 90% of the trains that circulate but from tomorrow we move to a transport plan of 30% of TGV Atlantic circulating", she announced, as this movement began Monday, October 21 begins its second week.
"We have to take over these trains and we do not have enough agents to do it", as the strike continues at the technicentre of Châtillon (Hauts-de-Seine), an establishment that deals with the maintenance of TGV Atlantique trains, explained the manager.
Since Monday, 200 agents are on strike in this establishment to express their "disagreement on a project of adjustment of their working conditions".
However, this project was "withdrawn from Tuesday" but "we are in a situation of blockage because the agents ask us the payment of the days of strike, which is totally unthinkable," said Ms. Cazenave.
"We continue to dialogue", "progress" has been made on the aspect of working conditions "but the payment of strike days is not possible", she insisted, lamenting a "situation of up to -boutistes "," which penalizes the customers ".
According to Julien Troccaz, federal secretary of the SUD-Rail union who called for the strike and spoke earlier in the week, the railway workers protested against "a challenge to working conditions by management without any consultation" with the staff.
The site management had announced a cancellation of compensatory breaks for evening and weekend work, said Erik Meyer, also federal secretary of SUD-Rail. "The agents had an epidermal reaction, at the height of the violence of the announcements of the management," he had judged.
Specifically, Monday two round trips are planned on the Paris-Nantes line, two on Paris-Rennes, four on Paris-Bordeaux, and the SNCF will also serve "Toulouse, Hendaye, Poitiers, Quimper, Brest" so that "each destination is served even in limited numbers, "explained the director.
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