Completely sterile outbid held Guillaume Pepy

Faraway, so close. The perspective of the end of the strike at the SNCF - sketched these last hours at a time by the CGT and management of the company - moves only slowly. While the conflict ends today its second week, a few strongholds indeed continue to mobilize. Thus, the general assemblies held in Rhônes-Alpes, Midi-Pyrénées have almost all renewed movement yesterday. The strikers of Languedoc-Roussillon (except those of freight) on the other hand suspended their participation, and Toulon controllers and drivers of Avignon.

The continuation of the movement in part contradicts the sense expressed a few hours earlier by Didier the rest. "We're going to the suspension of the strike, the CGT in any case", announced yesterday the leader of the first Union of the SNCF. "I think that the railway will decide in a number of locations to suspend their action." "We're on this path, provided that the company plays the game", he added. Partly missed goal. Heated to white by thirteen days of conflict, and that have been grafted onto the national strike of very local demands, the Railroaders in the South of the France maintained Cape Town, most of the time "a majority", according to the unions. The participation rate has varied from one week to another (28.49 of strikers yesterday in controllers, 32,67 among drivers and 3.97 for the whole of the railway). "South-Rail blowing on the embers for several days to turn into distraction the CGT, who does not know how to disentangle this conflict", analyses the head of another Union.

Very discreet at the beginning, South calls since a few days to a "amplification" of the strike. "Completely sterile outbid" held Guillaume Pepy. Bolstered this weekend by several Ministers who have made their support, the President of the SNCF said that he wanted more "reflex strike, the famous"gréviculture".

Varying disruptions

The leader has however eased its position to find a way out to this crisis, which cost "probably close to 100 million euros" to the public group, including 30 million alone because of disturbances who received cargo SNCF ("Les Echos" of yesterday). The Roundtable tomorrow - which is meet all the business, including the Unsa and CFDT-FGAAC unions, who took no part in the movement - will be held if there is "a dynamic of return to work." So far, the direction had the total end of the strike a prerequisite at this meeting. Remains to what Guillaume Pepy meant by dynamic. "Local activists could be tempted to extend at least until tomorrow to counter the plans of the leadership," said a trade unionist.

This inextricable strike, travellers should in any case expect to new disturbances, varying according to region. On average, SNCF announced today a service almost identical to that of the previous days, or 85 of the Transiliens, 80 of the TER and 90 of the TGV. In parallel, the company is organized to carry travellers stranded by the Icelandic volcano. Approximately 12,000 additional places will be offered today, largely on domestic traffic (5,000) and Eurostar (5,000).