While the government has used Article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass the pension reform, several National Education unions are calling for a strike from March 20. That is, at the start of the baccalaureate exams.
The mobilization is far from over against the pension reform. On Thursday March 16, the government of Elisabeth Borne resorted to section 49.3 of the Constitution in order to pass, without a vote in the National Assembly, the pension reform. Among the most contested measures of this reform, the impact it has on mothers, but also, the passage of the legal retirement age to 64 years. Faced with this government gesture, which many feared, the inter-union denounced “a real denial of democracy“demanding “the withdrawal of this reform”. This Friday, March 17, several National Education unions are calling for “pursue” mobilization, “including by the supervisors’ strike during the tests baccalaureate specialties starting on Monday”reports franceinfo from union sources.
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Indeed, the first exams of the bac start Monday 20 and continue on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 March, with specialty exams. In all, some 536,081 candidates will take these tests (390,710 candidates in the general track, 145,371 candidates in the technological track). In several regions, such as Brittany, several strike notices have already been filedreports franceinfo, and cover “the period of examinations and corrections”. The academic inter-union of Brittany calls for the “postponement of specialty tests to June“. She calls for a strike “wherever possible, before, during and after the written specialty tests, the oral, practical and experimental skills tests”.
What is provided for students in case of delay
For the moment, the region-by-region details of this strike from March 20 are not known. However, several establishments are already preparing for the delays of students in the tests, in particular because of the impact of the strike on public transport. Thus, if a student arrives late at his examination center because the circulation of his bus, his metro, or his train has been disrupted, he will be able to enter the room up to one hour after the start of the exam. ‘test. Given the context, he will also be able to shift his exit time, thus assures Édouard Geffray, the director general of school education, at the Ministry of National Education, at franceinfo.