Paris (AFP)
The CFDT-Cheminots, which had filed a strike notice to obtain "clear commitments" of the government, called Monday "all rail workers to go on strike renewable" Thursday, for lack of answers from the executive, she announced Monday.
The union calls in a leaflet the employees of the SNCF to "show the government their determination to defend the specificities of (their) trades".
"The urgent call for negotiation launched by the CFDT-Cheminots through its notice (announced November 21, filed November 27, ed) has not been seized by the government.The latter refused to clarify his In choosing the conflict, the government makes the choice of irresponsibility, "denounces the fourth representative union of the SNCF.
The CFDT-Cheminots believes that the government "wants to gauge the level of mobilization of railway workers to measure the balance of power instead of putting his proposals on the table." "Let us show our determination" by starting in "strike renewable", adds the union to the address of the employees of the SNCF.
Representing more than 18% of the train drivers, the CFDT-Cheminots asks the government to respect "the commitment made in 2018" during the vote of the railway reform, where "the counterpart" to the stop of the hirings to the status of railway worker (from 1 January 2020) "was the maintenance of the rights" of the railway workers' special pension scheme.
Favorable to a "systemic" reform of the pensions, the CFDT federation of the railway workers recalls that it supports the claims of its confederation: "a system based on the solidarity and the maintenance of the age of retirement" at 62 years.
The other three representative unions of the SNCF - CGT-Cheminots, Unsa railway and SUD-Rail - filed together a notice of strike renewable for Thursday, day of national strike interprofessional against the pension reform at the call of the CGT, FO , Solidaires and the FSU.
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