4:31 p.m.: For the right of withdrawal to be valid, the danger must therefore be "serious" and "imminent". And this is the point that the SNCF denies: "The reasons given do not justify in any way an unannounced and irregular stoppage of work.There is no serious and imminent danger in the movement of trains", says the company in a statement, citing a "strike without notice".
SUD-Rail, as well as the CGT-Cheminots, FO-Cheminots and the Fgaac-CFDT, dispute the operating mode "equipment agent alone" which allows to circulate trains without controller, evoking risks of safety for travelers, whereas according to the direction "it exists since tens of years".
12:34 pm: The Prime Minister visiting the Gare de l'Est evokes "a situation is unacceptable and it is a misuse of the law!". "I asked the SNCF to examine all the consequences, including judicial, that could be given when people do not respect the law," said Edouard Philippe, who visited the National Center for Rail Operations in Paris, with SNCF CEO Guillaume Pepy and Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
For its part, the President of SNCF announces that he will send formal notices to strikers who will be punished if they do not return to work.
Traffic disrupted at the SNCF: Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe denounces a "diversion of the right of withdrawal" to "unacceptable impact" pic.twitter.com/QVBwcKrvHW
– CNEWS (@CNEWS) October 19, 2019
11:42: There is "almost no train" in Auvergne, according to the SNCF, twenty have been removed, while in Rhône-Alpes, the "trend" is 1 TER out of 2 and 80% of TGV rolling on the area are in circulation. In Marseille, the TER traffic was normal at the beginning of the morning, and contrary to the day before when the platforms of the Saint-Charles station were empty as a result of the social movement, TGVs and TERs took passengers, according to a French journalist. AFP. Only one train from Narbonne (Occitanie region), one from Lyon and a TGV to Dijon-Ville were marked as deleted.
10:48: On BFM TV, Guillaume Pepy, CEO of the SNCF, spoke on the right of withdrawal that since Friday prevents the normal movement of trains throughout France. For the boss of the SNCF, this motive is "illegitimate". He considers that this work stoppage is a surprise strike, which "is not legal". The leader announced his intention to launch a legal action on this movement that he considers "illegitimate and illegal".
SNCF: Guillaume Pepy claims to be "studying the judicial way" pic.twitter.com/WYLIKfLiSD
– BFMTV (@BFMTV) October 19, 2019
9:41: RER A, B and D and lines H, J, L and R are also disturbed:
RER A: disturbed traffic between La Defense and Poissy and between La Defense and Cergy le Haut.
RER B: extremely disturbed traffic between Paris Nord and Mitry Claye / CDG 2 Airport.
Normal traffic between Paris Nord and Robinson / Saint-Remy les Chevreuse. RER D: almost no trains run on the line.
Line: H, J and L: disturbed traffic on the whole line
Line R: No train between Melun and Montereau via Hericy and between Moret and Montargis.
Almost no train between Paris and Montereau via Moret.
7:21: After five hours of talks, the management and unions have not found a compromise that could encourage drivers and controllers to lift their right of withdrawal, exercised after an accident that caused several injuries Wednesday, October 16, including a train driver. Both sides are expected to see each other in "next week's stream," management said. In the meantime, she calls the drivers and controllers "to resume work as soon as possible because they are in an irregular situation," she says.
"The situation will be very similar to that of Friday, where the TER network and some lines in the Paris region were very disturbed. No Ouigo train runs on the whole territory. TGVs are affected in the South-East region (Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Montpellier) and Atlantic-West (Rennes, Nantes, Bordeaux), with 9 out of 10 trains. Traffic will be normal in the North and East.
6:11: This work stoppage follows an accident on Wednesday evening: a TER linking Charleville-Mezieres to Reims hit an exceptional road convoy stuck on a level crossing in Saint-Pierre-sur-Vence (Ardennes). The prefecture of the Ardennes indicates that there were "eleven wounded", some of whom were hospitalized. Drivers and controllers have asserted their right of withdrawal as early as Thursday and even more so on Friday morning, at the service take. The driver, injured and shocked, "had to rescue the passengers because it was the only SNCF agent on board!", Lamented in a SUD-Rail statement.
This union, as well as the CGT-Cheminots, FO-Cheminots and the Fgaac-CFDT, dispute the operating mode "equipment agent alone", which allows to run trains without a controller, evoking risks of safety for travelers, whereas according to the direction "it exists since tens of years".
For his part, the Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari lamented a "surprise strike (…) outside the legal framework". "The right of withdrawal, it is a right of the workers to say: + attention is happening something serious +", defended the general secretary of the CGT Philippe Martinez. "We avoided a tragedy because there is a conscientious driver, attached to the rail public service, who worked, but we can not continue like that," he said.
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Friday 18th October
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On the eve of the school holidays, the SNCF traffic was very disrupted Friday on the TER network and some lines in the Paris region, drivers and controllers claiming their right to withdraw after an accident that Wednesday several injured, including a train driver.
A meeting was held in the morning between the management and the CGT which calls for the mandatory presence of a controller by train while the injured driver was the only SNCF agent aboard his TER, which circulated in Champagne-Ardenne.
"This strike without notice is totally irregular," TER branch director Franck Lacroix stressed at a press conference calling for "the resumption of normal service."
SNCF has announced a "consultation in each region" on Friday morning about security issues, coupled with a national consultation at 17H00 and the holding at 15H30 of the "working group on security" to "examine at the highest level level these questions.
At 13:00, the SNCF ensured that "one TER out of two circulated" with "great disparities according to the regions": in Occitania, New Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire in particular, the situation was "very disturbed".
Earlier in the morning, Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said on BFMTV that the traffic was "very disturbed in regions" with "25% of TER" and even "almost no train" in Occitania.
In the main stations, as in Toulouse-Matabiau, SNCF assistance agents dressed in red vest were deployed to guide users sometimes angry.
"We are not warned of anything, neither on the application nor on the internet, I discovered it when arriving here," Saif, 28, was forced to send a message urgently to his boss. His train for Labege, near Toulouse, where he had to go for a working meeting, was canceled.
In the Paris region, the circulation of the RER B and D was very strongly disturbed, as well as that of the Transilien J and R.
"This morning the SNCF service is not provided on several lines in the Paris region," said Paris region president Valerie Pecresse on Twitter, warning that "it would not be paid by IDF Mobilites", the transport union of Ile de France, and deploring that the social movement "plunges into the distress of hundreds of thousands of travelers."
This work stoppage without notice follows an accident Wednesday in Champagne-Ardenne, where a TER had hit an exceptional road convoy stuck on a railway crossing, causing several injuries including the train driver, according to a spokesman for the SNCF .
The prefecture of the Ardennes indicates that there were "eleven wounded", some hospitalized.
For Franck Lacroix, "under no circumstances were the travelers endangered" and "nothing justifies a stop without notice of work".
Drivers and controllers have asserted their right of withdrawal as early as Thursday and even more so on Friday morning at the service take. The driver, injured and shocked, "had to rescue the passengers because it was the only SNCF agent on board!" Lamented in a SUD-Rail statement.
This union, as well as the CGT-Cheminots, FO-Cheminots and the Fgaac-CFDT, dispute the operating mode "equipment agent alone", which allows to run trains without a controller, evoking risks of safety for travelers, whereas according to the direction "it exists since tens of years".
For his part, the Secretary of State for Transport lamented a "surprise strike (…) outside the legal framework".
It is "not normal to take users to witness a union position on a device they dispute," said Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. "Three-quarters of TERs are operated alone on board," said the Secretary of State who sees "an approved driving measure" practiced "everywhere in Europe".
"The right of withdrawal, it is a right of workers to say: + attention there is something serious happening," defended CGT Secretary General Philippe Martinez, asked about Europe 1. "We avoided a tragedy because that there is a conscientious driver, attached to the rail public service, who has worked. But we can not continue like that, "he warned.
12:08 PM: Management denounces "strike without notice which is not acceptable"
12:02: Franck Lacroix, General Manager SNCF-TER, held a press conference
"We are in a strike that is happening today without notice"
10:13: In a statement, the CGT federation of railway workers (1st union SNCF) "requires the return of controllers on all of these traffic to allow drivers to focus solely on the management of railway safety.
"One of the unions has made a request for immediate consultation and is being received by management at this time. The dialogue is installed, "assured AFP a spokesman for SNCF Friday morning.
9:45: "We do not insult a security event to assert a political position," said MP Jean-Baptiste Djebbari on BFMTV.
09h25: Update on the situation at SNCF this morning
Rail traffic was "heavily disrupted" Friday morning on the TER network and several lines in Île-de-France, including the RER B and D, many drivers and controllers have claimed their right of withdrawal after an accident occurred Wednesday, said the SNCF.
The circulation of regional trains was particularly affected in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (all suspended TER), Brittany (one out of two), Occitanie or in the Great East, specified the SNCF.
In the Paris region, the RER B and D traffic was very badly disrupted, with interruption of the interconnection, as well as that of the Transilien J and R.
This social movement without notice follows an accident Wednesday in Champagne-Ardenne, a TER having struck an exceptional road convoy stuck on a level crossing, doing "three minor injuries", the driver of the train and two passengers, according to a word of the SNCF.
The driver "had to rescue the passengers because it was the only SNCF agent on board!" Lamented in a SUD-Rail statement.
This union, as well as the CGT-Cheminots and FO-Cheminots, criticize the mode of exploitation "equipment agent alone", which allows to circulate trains without controller.
In a statement, the CGT federation of railway workers (1st union SNCF) "requires the return of controllers on all of these traffic to allow drivers to focus solely on the management of railway safety.
"One of the unions has made a request for immediate consultation and is being received by management at this time. The dialogue is installed, "assured AFP a spokesman for SNCF Friday morning.
8:10: Many disturbances and cancellations of trains are found in the Hauts-de-France, Pays de la Loire, Occitanie, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, the Grand-Est, Normandy, the Center Val-de -Loire, Brittany, but also in the Paris region. No regional train (TER) runs this morning in the Alpes-Maritimes. Several TER are removed in Occitania, leaving Toulouse Matabiau, day of departure on vacation, and in other areas affected by the strike.
7:53: In the Paris area, major disturbances are expected on lines A, B and D of the RER, as well as on the H, J, K, L, N and R transilians. On the other hand, the traffic flows smoothly. on the RER E. On the RER B, the traffic is interrupted between the Gare du Nord and Chatelet. For those who use the RER D, it is advisable to use an alternative transport. Train departures are also disrupted in the Haut-de-France region, the Alpes-Maritimes, Occitan and the Pays-de-la-Loire.
7:42: France Bleu already evokes trains removed on the line Orleans-Paris while La Depeche fears the removal of several TER station in Toulouse. In Ile de France, traffic is heavily disrupted on the RER B and on the Transilien lines such as the R line between Paris, Melun and Montereau or L and J.
7:22: In the Paris region, traffic is significantly slowed on the RER A, B, D on the lines H, J, K, L and R of the transilien.
06h50: The train traffic is disrupted in several regions this morning because of a "sudden social movement", says the SNCF at franceinfo. This social movement follows an accident on October 16 on a level crossing in Saint-Pierre-sur-Vence (Ardennes), where a collision between a truck and a TER made eleven wounded on board the train.
Train lines from several regions (including Ile-de-France, Grand-Est, Hauts-de-France, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, New Aquitaine …) are concerned by this movement initiated by the CGT, which called on its agents to assert their right of withdrawal.
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