The specter of a darkish week round May 8 | EUROtoday

“To negotiate, you have to be two and some unions do not seem to want to move towards a appeasement,” deplored the Minister of Transport Philippe Tabarot this Thursday morning on RTL. “I feel that the administration of the SNCF needs to proceed the social dialogue. There are plenty of claims they want to transfer ahead, “he said.

Philippe Tabarot, who says he is “the Minister of Users”, believes that May promises to be “troublesome”. “I nonetheless hope concerning the capacities of Jean-Pierre Farandou (patron of the SNCF, editor’s be aware) and Christophe Fanichet (CEO of SNCF vacationers) to have the ability to discover an settlement and that sure unions return to cause,” he said.

Philippe Tabarot pleads for social dialogue

Several strike notice have been filed, threatening the May 8 bridge. The CGT-Cheminots, the first union, called for mobilizing on May 5. The controllers are called upon to disengage on May 9, 10 and 11, by Sud-Rail, third union at the SNCF and second among the controllers, as well as by a collective influential of controllers called CNA. Sud-Rail also called on strike drivers on May 7, a day before holidays.

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“I still want social dialogue to be implemented. I do not wish to intervene directly because I think it would weaken the state, ”stated Philippe Tabarot. And so as to add: “I trust the SNCF to see what is right and what is not just in terms of claims. Employee revaluations are notably requested by the two protest unions.

Read too SNCF freight, story of an endless decline “Those who declare to be, and I want to consider it, lovers of the rail and who need the state via the SNCF to have the ability to spend money on the railway should […] Do not completely use the weapon of the strike, “warned the minister, while” a day of strike is 10 million (euros) that aren’t invested within the community “.