2023-04-18 17:58:38
Are the 2022 holiday season threatened by transport strikes? The situation becomes more complicated for Christmas and New Year weekends at the SNCF where the CGT-Cheminots and Sud-Rail unions now leave it to each captain – the official name of the controllers – to decide whether or not to join the movement launched by a collective. A first weekend of strike, from December 2 to 5, 2022, had led the SNCF to cancel 60% of its TGV and Intercités. A disaster scenario that she wants to avoid for Christmas and New Year weekends. Since November, she has been struggling to establish a dialogue with the collective of controllers at the origin of the social movement, and that the unions are trying to frame somehow. The national collective ASCT (CNA) brings together more than 3,500 members on Facebook and rejects any connection with the unions, even if it had to rely on the union organizations to bring its demands and file strike notices. The collective of controllers, which calls for better recognition of the specificity of this profession, was received with the unions on December 8, 2022. At the end of this, management proposed to increase the “work bonus” captains of 600 euros per year, part of which would be integrated into their salary in 2024, as well as an additional allowance of 600 euros gross per year. Other specific measures concerning advancement have been put on the table in order to facilitate the career development of skippers. The social climate remains fragile at the SNCF since the salary increase proposals for 2023 formulated by the management on December 7 during the mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), were only signed by one union – the CFDT – out of four. The management has proposed a series of measures leading, according to it, to a salary increase of 5.9% on average, including a 2% general increase for all. Measures deemed insufficient by the CGT, Unsa and SUD-Rail. On the air transport side, Air France said it was not considering “cancellations at this stage”, despite a strike notice from the Unac and Sngaf unions of cabin crew for the period from December 22, 2022 to January 2, 2023. Conflicts have also been defused at Air Antilles, Air Guyane, Corsair and Easyjet. The social movement should widen at the start of the school year, all of the RATP unions having called on Wednesday to “continue and harden the strike movement from January 2023”, around the question of wages but also pensions.
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