One in three Atlantic TGVs will be canceled on Saturday and Sunday, and one in ten canceled on Friday, due to a call for a strike by the drivers of these trains launched by three unions, SNCF announced Thursday, October 21.
The call for a joint strike by CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots will affect the movement of TGV inOui and Ouigo on the TGV Atlantique axis, SNCF said in a press release. This call runs from Friday noon to Monday noon, or the entire first weekend of All Saints holidays.
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Negotiations with unions on pay and working conditions “Have been carried out for several days” and “Could not find a favorable outcome at this stage”, indicated the management. “As a result, the transport offer will be reduced this weekend on the inOui and Ouigo TGVs to and from Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Center-Val de Loire, New Aquitaine and Occitanie”, she detailed.
“Each customer concerned is contacted in order to inform them about the circulation of their train”, underlined the management.
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Travelers will be able to “To be reimbursed or exchanged” their ticket “For another date and this free of charge”, added the SNCF, which invites those “Who can or who have not yet booked to postpone their trip”.
In a common leaflet, the CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots unions explain that ” since weeks “, they “Keep calling the management on the growing discontent” train drivers on the TGV Atlantique axis. These organizations denounce “The disorganization of this establishment” and working days “Notoriously degraded, resulting in particular from the calamitous management of the crisis on the business side”.
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The working days are “Always longer”, while the “Living and working conditions are deteriorating day by day”, with “A decrease in average compensation”, denounce the unions, who also protest against “The decline in the workforce”, which leads to “Refusal of leave”. ” The cup is full “, they protest, claiming “Maintaining the number of lines”.
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In a separate press release, SUD-Rail claims “The recruitments necessary to compensate for the understaffing” as well as “Maintaining the professional paths of drivers in the regions”, who “Allow many drivers to have access to driving the TGV and which management today wants to question”, according to the union.
