The Government must face an increase in strike calls for the months of November and December in France, in a sluggish economic context and in a context of budgetary austerity for 2025.
SNCF: call for an indefinite strike starting December 11
The SNCF unions on Saturday called an indefinite strike starting on Wednesday, December 11, to demand a moratorium against the announced dismantling of Fret SNCF and to protest against the conditions of opening regional lines to competition.
The SNCF fret should disappear by 1Ahem January 2025 it will be reborn in the form of two different companies, called Hexafret, for freight transport, and Technis, for locomotive maintenance. This is the second stage of the discontinuity plan negotiated by the French State with the European Commission, to avoid a recovery procedure that could have led to the outright liquidation of the company, which employs 5,000 employees.
In a joint statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the CGT-Cheminots, the UNSA-Ferroviaire, Sud-Rail and the CFDT-Cheminots explained that, given the lack “inflection” From the group’s leadership, the strike would be unlimited and renewable for periods of twenty-four hours starting on Wednesday, December 11 at 7 p.m.
The unions also reiterated their call for a strike from Wednesday, November 20 at 7 p.m. until Friday, November 22 at 8 a.m.
Airline pilots call for strike and demonstration on Thursday
The National Union of Airline Pilots (SNPL) called a strike on Thursday and a demonstration in front of the National Assembly following the vote by deputies in favor of an increase in taxes on air transport. “Given the government’s desire to withdraw an additional billion a year from the aviation sector, we call on pilots, but also all employees in the aviation sector, to mobilize on November 14”a spokesman for the ultra-majority pilots union declared to AFP on Sunday.
In a joint press release sent at the end of the day, several other unions in the sector (UNSA transport, UNSA PNC, CFE-CGC Fnema, UNAC, SNPNC-FO and FEETS-FO) announced that they were calling to join the movement.
The deputies, who are examining the draft budget for 2025, approved on Friday the increase in taxation on air transport proposed by the Government, however limiting its duration to one year and excluding Overseas and Corsica from the system. This amendment is supposed to increase air transport taxation by one billion euros and will come into force on 1Ahem January 2025. Specifically, this system will increase tax rates on airline tickets. For flights in economy class, the increase will be from 2.60 euros per passenger to 9.50 euros for a European destination; from 7.50 euros to 15 euros for intermediate destinations; and from 7.50 euros to 40 euros for distant destinations, according to the rapporteur of the general budget, Charles de Courson.
New farmer mobilizations
On the part of farmers, anger is growing again, less than a year after a movement that partially paralyzed France’s main roads. Symbolic actions have resumed in recent weeks and should increase from mid-November, in particular at the request of the majority unions: the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA) and the Young Farmers (JA).
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Farmers, hard hit this year by poor wheat harvests and a new health crisis on livestock farms, are demanding to be able to make a living from their profession: they are waiting for clarity on the issue of loans guaranteed by the State. And they categorically reject the signing of a free trade agreement negotiated between the EU and Latin American countries, Mercosur.
Call for strike in the public service for Thursday
Two of the main public service unions, FO and the CGT, called a strike on Thursday after the failure of a meeting with the Minister of the Public Service, Guillaume Kasbarian, raising the possibility of mobilizations at the beginning of December.
“We will take the minister at his word: three days of waiting, three days of strike”launched Christian Grolier, general secretary of the UIAFP-FO, who wants to work with the inter-union “as broad as possible”. “It is obvious that the CGT is going to participate in a strike movement”added Sylviane Brousse, coordinator of the CGT Public Service, denouncing a ” contempt “ of the minister for public officials.
