The CGT railway workers want to warn about the lack of personnel at the SNCF! So they installed this Thursday symbolic employment offices in front of Strasbourg and Mulhouse stations. According to the CGT, just in the Mulhouse sector, 40 positions would be to be filled on permanent contracts.
Since the introduction of the new transport plan, only 85% of the trains initially planned have been running in the region. The SNCF argues that there is a staffing problem linked to contamination by the Omicron variant. A false pretext considers Louise Bève controller on the TER and CGT delegate.
“The main reason for train cuts is understaffing. There are not enough of us. The 85% adapted transport plan is not a question of Covid, but of understaffing “ said the union representative. And she adds:In all the services it would be necessary to hire. And when you are significantly understaffed, an epidemic or a few sick leaves, it disrupts a lot of things”.
Clément Soubise, switchman at the Strasbourg station and elected CGT also believes that the SNCF has reached a level severe understaffingdangerous for its agents.
“We have a workload that is constantly increasing, with an ever-decreasing number of staff, with deteriorating working conditions, colleagues running in all directions, burnouts, great suffering at work. In the region, the understaffing is such that the SNCF is no longer able to honor the planned transport plan“he believes.
The CGT Cheminot is therefore asking for dozens of permanent hires in the region and salary increases.
In the meantime, the trade unionists therefore held this symbolic recruitment office. To prove that hiring is possible, with a little willpower. And by promising interested passers-by to send their CVs to the competent services.