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Anyone know much about this? I'm trying to read into it and this is what I've found so far:
>Macron trying to make major changes to SNCF, the state owned rail company in France
>part of a push to overhaul the French economy due to sluggish performance
>EU law says they need to open up the network to private operators, so it seems like Macron would likely separate the rail maintenance and construction into one company and operations of trains into another. Similar to in the UK, the Netherlands, etc.
>rail unions are now calling for a 36 day strike to try and stop it. They will be rolling strikes, with some days running fine and others with no service.
>reforms includes stripping new recruits of jobs-for-life and other benefits
>“The situation is alarming,” Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said of the state of affairs at the SNCF group, where many of the 260,000 staff have jobs for life and the right to retire in their 50s, as much as a decade earlier than most.
>push to close more rural lines as well and cut service in some places
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Rail-unions-call-for-36-days-of-strikes
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-sncf/macron-government-takes-on-union-bastion-in-french-rail-reform-idUSKCN1GA101
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-06/emmanuel-macron-reforming-france-s-railways-is-his-big-test
>Macron trying to make major changes to SNCF, the state owned rail company in France
>part of a push to overhaul the French economy due to sluggish performance
>EU law says they need to open up the network to private operators, so it seems like Macron would likely separate the rail maintenance and construction into one company and operations of trains into another. Similar to in the UK, the Netherlands, etc.
>rail unions are now calling for a 36 day strike to try and stop it. They will be rolling strikes, with some days running fine and others with no service.
>reforms includes stripping new recruits of jobs-for-life and other benefits
>“The situation is alarming,” Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said of the state of affairs at the SNCF group, where many of the 260,000 staff have jobs for life and the right to retire in their 50s, as much as a decade earlier than most.
>push to close more rural lines as well and cut service in some places
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Rail-unions-call-for-36-days-of-strikes
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-sncf/macron-government-takes-on-union-bastion-in-french-rail-reform-idUSKCN1GA101
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-06/emmanuel-macron-reforming-france-s-railways-is-his-big-test
