SNCF: A new report commissioned by the unions predicted … – Les Echos

This dark scenario is based on the disappearance of 11,000 to 13,000 jobs in the next five years, about 150,500 that has the company.

The job cuts could be important to the SNCF in the coming years, at least if you believe the expert reports commissioned by the state enterprise unions. After a first mid-February expertise, which envisaged 9,000 net job losses in 2020, a new report from Secafi firm delivered Tuesday at the Central Works Council (CEC) and predicts a “new significant downturn likely “ of the workforce of the public group, in the order of 11,000 to 13,000 jobs in the next five years, according to AFP. Of a total of 1 January 2015 of 150,500 employees.

In detail, the report of Secafi anticipates a reduction of 8,000 positions at SNCF Mobility (which result from the railway reform adopted in June 2014, now includes the passenger and freight activities), and a loss of 3,000 to 5,000 positions at SNCF network (which houses the staff dedicated to the organization of traffic and maintenance ways). These forecasts, however, based on the strategic plan that SNCF is still “negotiate and sign contracts with the State” this year.

“adverse pressure”

They do not worry unless the CGT. The first union of the public institution and stresses that the “unsustainable” financial equation on which the company is subject “may result, in 2020, the removal of near a railroad job out of ten, a significant reduction of the network and a conviction, more or less long term “ ” Intercity trains and goods “, reports AFP .

Secafi still believes that the goal of “stabilize the debt to a medium-term horizon” creates a “adverse pressure” “industrial base” of the group and its ability to organize the necessary mobility.

This new encrypted forecast is presented as the CGT continues its fight against -she rail reform led another strike in early March. It should be no surprise belied by the direction of the station. Earlier this month, the CEO Guillaume Pepy had already denounced, on the report of Degest cabinet, “a scenario which nobody has heard” , continuing: “I, my prediction is a railway is growing “.

Elsa Dicharry and Lionel Steinmann