The South Rail union calls TGV controllers to the strike on the weekend of May 8-Liberation
The threat had been brandished at the end of Marchit is now implemented. The Sud Rail union calls this Friday, April 4, the TGV controllers to go on strike on Friday, April 9, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May, in the midst of a bridge weekend of 8-May, to denounce the degradation of their working conditions. Sud Rail criticizes the constant planning changes in the last minute.
The controllers had already carried out Two strikes massively followed in the past, at Christmas 2022 and during 2024 winter holidays, provoking numerous cancellations of trains in the middle of departure weekend. For the moment, only South Rail, the third union of the group but second among the controllers, calls for the strike. At the end of March, he had made a notice from April 17 to June 2, thus covering school holidays and spring bridges.
The union therefore increases the pressure of a notch, after « Three sterile meetings without the slightest commitment of the management », he wrote in a leaflet. He claims, in addition to better anticipated schedules, an increase of 100 euros per month of the control bonus of the controllers. This category has mainly mobilized in recent years via an informal collective created on a Facebook group and baptized National ASCT (CNA).
This collective has not yet made it known whether it will join the movement launched by South or not. During the last two strikes on the initiative of the CNA at Christmas 2022 and in February 2024, several hundred thousand people had seen their trains canceled.
Social dialogue has set itself off in recent weeks at the SNCF under the impetus of Sud Rail, which called on the drivers on Thursday to strike on May 7. The protest union also left the negotiating table organized to discuss union rights at the SNCF in the context of opening up to the group and the group’s breakdown in multiple subsidiaries. At the end of last year, it had been, without success, at the forefront of the combat against the liquidation of FRET SNCF, transformed into two subsidiaries with the abolition of 500 jobs at the key. He then warned that he wanted to resume the fight in the year 2025.
