After a Christmas weekend marked by the cancellation of many TGV, the management of the SNCF managed to save the New Year's weekend thanks to an agreement torn off at the last minute with the representatives of the captains, the controllers.
This social movement, organized by a collective outside the unions, posed many problems for the SNCF (and the government) which had to deal with this headless group which expresses itself on social networks. Will this agreement put an end to this social rebellion which escapes the intermediary bodies that are the unions? Not really.
"Progress but..."
If the collective's Facebook page was closed for a while, it is back online. When questioned, one of its members explains to Business that the group is "on break (because) we have made progress". This agreement "satisfies us because there are certain advances (but they) are not up to our expectations" underlines this member, in particular the very sensitive questions of "taking into account our responsibilities and the difficulty of the profession of rolling". In the agreement, "it is noted that the management will work on it" observes the captain. "The strike as you know is over, we will all go back to work from today, but we will follow progress in 2023 or not..." warns the member of the collective. The latter should therefore remain active next year to the chagrin of the management of the and the unions who are wondering about this collective even if most of them have indeed been obliged to take it into account in the negotiations.
The unions have "awaited our approval"
In our columns, Didier Mathis, boss of the UNSA-Railway(executives) thus mocked "claims that say it all and their opposite, which sometimes have neither tail nor head, like a request for profit-sharing from the SNCF". "To make claims, they still have to be legitimate," he said. Remember that only representative unions are authorized to participate in discussions with theSNCF but some have "invited" members of the collective to their delegations. But it was this collective that decided on its own to lift the notice for the New Year's Day weekend, after an internal vote which, according to our information, leaned more towards the strike, causing the SNCF management to wait until to last Friday. There was "no pressure from the unions (Sud Rail, CFDT and Unsa), they waited for our approval" confirms the member of the collective.