A warm-up lap for the unions. Nearly a year after the adoption in the pain of the act railway – it was triggered 36 days of strike, the representative trade unions at the SNCF, the CGT, Unsa, Sud-Rail and CFDT) went down together in the street. They organized an event in Paris on the afternoon of 4 June. “It will be a success if there are 15.000 protesters”, writes Roger Dillenseger, general secretary of Unsa railway. 9000 members or supporters of the CGT railwaymen have already confirmed their coming.
This movement will not have a direct impact on rail users: the trade unions have not issued a call to strike on that day. But things may not stop there: “We are in the idea that we have a new great social conflict, warns Lawrence Brown, general secretary of the CGT railway workers, the first union of the SNCF. There could be surprises by the end of the year.” In clear, repeated strikes. …
