{"id":46695,"date":"2025-04-24T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46695\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:25:11","slug":"france-braces-for-widespread-rail-strikes-in-early-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46695\/","title":{"rendered":"France braces for widespread rail strikes in early May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>France is bracing for significant rail disruptions in early May as unions representing national railway staff announce a series of strikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The CGT-Cheminots, SNCF\u2019s largest union, has announced an indefinite strike beginning May 5, while Sud-Rail, which represents a significant number of train conductors, has called for walkouts on May 7, 9, 10, and 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/europe\/french-rail-unions-announce-new-strikes-in-may-as-government-warns-economic-loss\/3547336\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The action coincides with the long weekend around the May 8 national holiday, traditionally one of the busiest periods for travel across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The unions are demanding wage increases and improved working conditions for railway staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete warned that each day of strike action leads to \u20ac10 million ($10.7M) in lost investments in the national rail infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">&#8220;Those who say they care about the rail network and public investment must also take responsibility,&#8221; Vergriete said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">&#8220;By constantly calling for strikes, they weaken the very system they claim to defend,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Vergriete said he hoped the unions would &#8220;return to reason,&#8221; urging all parties to pursue social dialogue in good faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">&#8220;Negotiation can only take place if everyone is around the table and shows a willingness to de-escalate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to intervene directly because I think that would weaken the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France is bracing for significant rail disruptions in early May as unions representing national railway staff announce a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,25645,25644],"class_list":{"0":"post-46695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-rail-strikes","12":"tag-sncf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114393168169162842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}