The TER strike continues this Monday, May 30, throughout the southern region of the SNCF, with the exception of the Côte d’Azur. The train drivers are demanding an increase in salaries.
The SNCF driving agents have been on strike since Sunday 29 May 2022. They are demanding an increase in their salaries. The movement, on the initiative of the FO (Force Ouvirère) and CGT (General Confederation of Labor) trade unions, is expected to last until Tuesday. Traffic on the TER Sud network is strongly disturbed.
The outages affect the entire southern region of the SNCF except the Cote d’Azur (Cannes – Nice – Ventimiglia). TERZOU trains are worried.
To find out if your TER train is running, you can go on the SNCF TER website. A header is used to search for disturbances on the desired line. In summary :
The train drivers are scheduled to meet on Monday, May 30, 2022 in the morning ahead of regional directorate of the SNCF in Marseille to ask for a better salary.
At the Saint-Charles station in Marseille on Sunday 29 May 2022, several travelers were shocked. The Annonas keep coming to disrupt their schedules. “We lost our connection with our TGV to return to Paris“, says a tourist into the microphone of a France 3 Provence-Alpes team. And to resume:”we cannot take the next train and tomorrow they are all full. We paid 280 euros for the return ticket and there is no solution, everything is closed, there is no one to tell us she complains.
It’s a shame to take us hostage on vacation days. The cancellation of the train prevented us from going to the restaurant at noon for Mother’s Day. My son is there and we only have a train at 7:43 pm. Why do they choose today? We are very sad, we are not responsible, we have nothing to do with this!
The travelers, en masse at the station, had no choice but to take care of it.
For Ali Boualam, train driver and regional delegate of the Force Ouvrière union in Marseille, the fault lies with the SNCF: “we are on the fourth day of strike with attacking rates varying between 90 and 100% of TER pilots in Marseille, Avignon, Miramas and Veynes“. He explains : “the SNCF has 15 days between the filing of the notice and the moment of the strike to turn away. He had plenty of time to come back to us with decent proposals and that’s not the case at all.“
We ask for an increase in salaries given the current purchasing power and after 8 years of wage freeze at the SNCF. We would also like an improvement in working conditions through the agreements we have made and which the SCNF does not respect. There are still lines on which drivers are not accompanied by controllers.
Ali Boualam, train driver and regional delegate of the Force Ouvrière union in Marseille
This union representative specifies that without the controllers on some trains where they are planned, the train drivers find themselves alone in front of “passenger safety. If there are altercations or anything else we shouldn’t face them!“. Highlights an increase in attacks on train drivers.
Traffic on the TER south is expected to resume normal pace starting Tuesday 31 May.
