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Gathered in a general assembly in the Parisian station on Tuesday, the railway workers voted to renew the strike on Wednesday. In particular, they hope to get a pay raise.
Of the “It will be crazy!” punctuated by cheers. It is 12:45 pm on Tuesday, Gare du Nord, in Paris, and the general assembly of railway workers, full of pennants and jackets with the union colors of the CGT and Sud Rail, is coming to an end. At the end of the famous quay 36, the high place of their struggles and their anger, 150 SNCF agents have just voted to renew the strike at least until [mercredi]”.” Let’s act, now is the time! enthuses Sébastien Peronnet of CGT, microphone in hand. We must take the opportunity offered to us by the refineries to get out of the game: in our workshops, on the field and on our construction sites, the situation is no longer viable and salaries are indecent. Our management must be afraid. As in Total, it only understands the balance of power, you have to make them fold. Arms crossed, back against the fence, Laura, a 41-year-old Transilien pilot, ensures: “You have to understand one thing. If we are mobilizing, it is not to symbolically support refineries. It’s for our salaries, in our company. For us.”
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