The CGT struggles to mobilize but wants to continue the "fight"

La CGT Cheminots, the only one to have launched a national call to the strike Thursday, mobilized little this 19th of July. "The rate of strikers is 3.17%," said the management of
the SNCF. This strike has hardly affected the traffic, which is "normal", it was said, except for "very slight adaptations in New Aquitaine and Occitania" for TER. Thursday's mobilization is ten times lower than that of April 3 (33.9% of strikers), the first day of the strike at four unions (CGT, Unsa, SUD and CFDT) conducted until the end of June to protest the reform

But "the fight continues", launched at the microphone, in front of a hundred protesters, Thierry Nier, deputy secretary general of the CGT Cheminots, who had called for a rally on Thursday near the place of a meeting employer- unions on the national collective agreement (NCC) of the railway branch, in La Défense, near Paris. "The CGT will invest in the negotiations for a high-level collective agreement," promised Thierry Nier to the demonstrators.

The union, which "claims the repeal of the law" of railway reform, also wants "to act against the break-up "of SNCF," for employment, wages and pensions "railway workers, and calls for the revival of rail freight, he said.

First day of strike alone for the CGT [19659006] The CGT is "not disappointed" by the level of mobilization on Thursday, given the number of railway workers "on holiday" or who "need to breathe" after the three-month strike two days out of five, said Thirry Deny AFP. It was the first day of a national strike organized by the only CGT against the railway reform. On the 6th and 7th of July, during the first big departures on summer holidays, she went on strike with SUD-Rail

Concerning the new action envisaged on 27th July by the CGT, "the process is in progress" towards the whether or not to give notice of a strike, added Thierry Nier. But "we want to continue the mobilization during the summer to maintain a level of pressure," he said.