Star despite it. The SNCF should be today of the few companies whose operation will be disturbed by the fourth day of action which call the trade union confederations since the beginning of the year. Only 50 of TER (regional trains) should be insured against 75 in the TGV. In Ile-de-France, the Transiliens trafficking should be provided to 60. By comparison, in air transport, the DGAC only referred to disturbances "possible especially at the beginning of day" to Orly, while Air France has cancelled some flights preventively and provides the morning light delays at Orly.
At the RATP, where only the CGT called for the strike, users will spend an almost normal day in the Paris Metro. "We we recognize fully the national approach." "But to mobilize workers after two days of mobilization which already encumbered wages, should have been serious business, as the SNCF specific and concrete motives", explains Thierry Babec, central delegate Unsa to RATP.

Cargo, another area of concern
Reasons for concern indeed began to accumulate for railroad workers, if it believes the four trade unions (CGT, Unsa, South-rail and CFDT-FGAAC) originally of the strike. The crisis, which has already affected its sales in the first quarter, the railway will have to revise its budget and tightening a few bolts. The Board of Directors of tomorrow could be the occasion to announce savings measures. "This should remain limited, with the removal of expenditures related to audit, and communication companies." "But we are expecting a downward revision in the number of hires planned for 2009," said a trade unionist. Initially, the public group had planned to hire 8,000 people. Their number would be reviewed, as the retirements are less numerous than expected, and that it will no doubt take recaser in internal employees of cargo.
It affects where the second subject of concern of railway. Rail transport of goods, in since long, has a catastrophic year start, with a decline of 28 of the turnover from freight in the first quarter. Losses, which reached EUR 350 million, could widen to 600 million this year! Before the magnitude of the disaster management prepares the response, which could pass through the creation of specialised subsidiaries and a request for assistance from the State for service of isolated cars (transport customized and targeted), heavily deficit ("Les Echos" from May 12). The unions are on tenterhooks, prior announcements should be made next month. Aware of the potentially explosive social climate, the SNCF gave up week last increase the rates paid by the railway to borrow the TGV. "The direction sought defuse the tension before the day of today." "But social conflicts could reappear in June on what will be decided on the cargo", provides a trade unionist.
On the other hand, today will be "especially one-day relay" between May 1 and Saturday 13 June, date of the next initiative, as recognized by Gerard Aschieri, Secretary General of the FSU. In the Haute-Marne, demonstrators have planned to go back the keys to businesses close to the Secretary of State for industry, Luc Chatel, Mayor of Chaumont, as Continental's Clairoix employees explode at Compiègne, being called merchants to lower the curtain to Abbeville.