Around 130 CGT railway workers gathered this Tuesday, November 5 in front of the SNCF Regional Directorate of Montpellier against the implementation of Compulsory Supplementary Health in the company. A measure supported by other unions, in particular by Sud Rail.
Narbonne, Carcassonne, Sète, Béziers: so many names of towns in the region which were adorned with the red vests of the CGT activists gathered this morning of Tuesday November 5 in front of the Regional Directorate of the SNCF in Montpellier.
Around 130 of them, mostly retired, came to protest against compulsory complementary health insurance in the pipeline at the SNCF. “At the CGT we are for all Social Security. »explains an activist on the microphone, just after a meeting between a delegation of trade unionists and management. “The government and SNCF management are working hard to weaken our special welfare regime, thus preparing the transfer of specific benefits to complementary health insurance, with a desire to align the rights of the special regime with those of the general regime. »
The union denounces an obligation to purchase mutual insurance for SNCF employees, the exclusion of 240,000 retirees from the system, a significant increase in contributions for retirees, the closure of company medical offices and the reduction in the latent issue of internal care medicine, as well as management control over guarantee and contribution levels.
And demands the improvement of the rights of the special regime and its extension to contractual railway workers, via a New Status of Railway Workers.
Among the four nationally representative unions, only Sud Rail voted on September 18 for the implementation of this compulsory supplement, which should be provided by the Humanis/MGC and Carcept group after a call for tenders. For once, the CFDT and the UNSA, after having abstained on September 18, like the CGT, have since ended up joining the position of Sud Rail.
While the CGT, alone on this, called for rallies throughout France this Tuesday, November 5, the Sud Rail federation published a press release on September 27. “As long as there is no complete coverage of care and life accidents by Social Security or Provident Fund, the establishment of a complementary social protection system within our company therefore responds to a real need and a real demand from agents. “, can we read.
After which the union is pleased to have been able to negotiate the most favorable conditions for employees as possible, which led, for example, to the inclusion of all subsidiaries in which SNCF has a majority within the scope of the agreement. .
Friday, November 8, a new mobilization should take place throughout the country in the form of a strike of the company’s workers, on questions of salaries, bonuses, working conditions and contractualization of precarious workers. And always at the call of the CGT alone…
“However, the CGT continues to work for union unity, for a social movement capable of removing this illegitimate government appointed in defiance of the choice of the ballot boxes. »will have commented the speaker of the day in front of the management of Rondelet.
And since we are talking about retirees, the day of December 3 has rather consensus, since the nine union organizations of retirees are calling for a demonstration for the revaluation of pensions.
