Fewer trains run on several lines from Friday to Sunday. The strikers are demanding salary increases and an expansion of the workforce.
A strike by the conductors at the French railway company SNCF Called from Friday to Sunday, in the middle of the school holidays, it will affect thousands of people who want to take the train with this weekend in Iparralde.
The aim of the management of the National Railway Company (SNCF) is to limit the number of cancellations and “ensure that one in two TGVs (high-speed trains) runs this weekend, emphasizes the person in charge of passenger operations Christophe Fanichet. The SNCF must communicate which trains are canceled and which are running.
Two unions, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and Sud Rail, have launched this strike call, targeting the workers. 8,000 business reviewers and they expect between 70% and 90% of strikers.
Their demands are above all salariesand from increase in troops of this category on trains.
Conditions in Iparralde
Train traffic will be delayed this weekend. According to Mediabask Intercités and TGVs are canceled for half of the night. in the direction Bayonne-Paris and Paris-Bayonne. Also in the Bayonne-Bordeaux direction, two out of five TGV trains will not run on Friday, five out of six on Saturday and five out of seven on Sunday. In the opposite direction, almost three quarters fewer TGV trains are expected.
Source: EITB
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