SNCF strike: one in three TGV will be canceled this weekend in Toulouse, Tarbes, Montauban, Agen
Disruptions are to be expected all weekend on train journeys in the southwest and west of France. TGV traffic to and from part of Occitania, including Toulouse, Tarbes, Montauban, is particularly disturbed when departing on All Saints holidays.
One in three Atlantic TGVs will be canceled on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 October, and one in ten unions canceled on Friday, due to a call for a strike launched by three, SNCF reported on Thursday 21 October in a press release.
The notice of a joint strike by the CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots will affect the movement of TGV Inoui and Ouigo of the TGV Atlantique axis which links in particular Paris to Bordeaux, Toulouse, Montauban, Tarbes ,. ..
Negotiations on remuneration and working conditions “could not find a favorable outcome at this stage”, indicates the management. “As a result, the transport offer will be reduced this weekend on the TGV Inoui and Ouigo from and to Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Center-Val de Loire, New Aquitaine and Occitanie”, – it detailed.
Refund or exchange free of charge
“Each customer concerned is contacted in order to inform them about the circulation of their train”, underlined the management. Travelers can “get a refund or exchange” their ticket “for another date and without charge”, at 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 “for weeks”, they “have not ceased to challenge management on the growing discontent” of train drivers on the TGV Atlantique axis . These organizations denounce “the disorganization of this establishment” and the “notoriously degraded working days, in particular the calamitous management of the crisis on the business side”.
The working days are “always longer”, while “living and working conditions are deteriorating day by day”, with “a fall in average remuneration”, denounce the unions, who also protest against “the decline of the workforce “, which leads to” refusals of leave “. “The cup is full”, they protest, claiming “the maintenance of the number of lines”.