What happens in Alsatian stations? TER traffic is disrupted since the start of the week. On Monday, it was due to a strike action against the Strasbourg RER project.
Tuesday is due mobilization for wage increases
. The two strike movements have been suspended and yet there are still disturbances announced this Thursday and Friday.
The management evokes a social movement, the unions refute
On the TER Grand Est site,
management indicates that traffic is disrupted in Alsace due to “of a renewed local social movement“. The unions that we have joined, however, ensure that the strike movement is indeed suspended and that there are very few strikers left, “12% Wednesday“, no doubt residues of the movement launched on Tuesday. “With this mobilization, traffic should be almost normal“, says a trade unionist.
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SNCF
The Alsace Technicentre at a standstill
So why is the transport plan announced by the SNCF so degraded? The SNCF maintains that there are strikers, especially among the drivers, but refuses to give the figures. Management also mentions a white day at the Technicentre Alsace. The agents were unable to maintain the trains due to an information meeting organized by a union and this has direct consequences on train traffic.
Unions are perplexed. “It takes several days without maintenance to achieve such degradation of traffic”, explain several sources. According to them, the management masks more structural problems, “shortages of staff“, with many trains canceled per day for several weeks already.