A call to disobedience. SUD-Rail on Monday called on railway workers “not to carry out checks on health passes”, which will become necessary from August to travel on TGV, Intercity trains and international trains from France. The union asks SNCF agents to carry out only “their only missions of security and control of transport tickets,” he said in a press release.
Regarding SNCF employees (controllers, railway security officers) who will need a health pass to be able to work on board these long-distance trains from August 30, SUD-Rail warns that it “will not hesitate not to call for a strike on the whole “of the group,” if the State and the management of the SNCF came to confirm their intentions to sanction “the employees without going” by a suspension or a reclassification “to a position n ‘ not requiring this pass.
“Antisocial” and “discriminatory”
If it is for “general vaccination on a global scale” – the “best way to stop the pandemic” -, SUD-Rail “refuses constraint and infringement of freedoms” and “positions itself against the health pass” , which he considers “antisocial” and “discriminatory”.
This health pass “is built against workers, especially those” who worked “without any protection during the first wave and who will this time be the first to be punished,” said the union.
The health bill, definitively adopted this Sunday by Parliament, provides in particular for the extension of the health pass (negative Covid test, vaccination certificate or recovery certificate) to passengers on long-distance trains, as well as to employees exercising their activity. on board. An employee without proof from August 30 may be suspended without pay.