IThey are waiting for an answer. Monday, January 17, the unions launched a new strike call Thursday in schools, colleges and high schools after the major movement last Thursday. They demand “strong responses” in the face of the “chaos” caused by the health crisis. Massive investments in education are also requested.
The unions FSU, CGT Educ’action, FO and SUD Education, as well as the FCPE, the first organization of parents of pupils, and the high school student movements FIDL, MNL and La Voix lycéenne called for “continuing the mobilization”, by engaging “in a new day of action on January 20, including by strike”, in a press release. This mobilization “must lead to a massive strike on January 27 as part of the interprofessional call” for wages and employment, they added. For these organizations, “the chaos generated by the management of the health crisis deserves strong responses, beyond the commitments made by the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Education” on January 13.
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A general exasperation
Teachers and other National Education staff, exasperated by the waltz of health protocols linked to Covid-19, carried out a major strike on Thursday, after which the government promised them 5 million masks. FFP2 and replacements, with in particular the recruitment of “3,300 more contract workers” and the use of additional lists (candidates who passed the competition and were not recruited, but were well ranked).
The government also announced that the evaluations of “mid-CP” would be “postponed to a deadline which remains to be defined”, and that a possible postponement of the baccalaureate specialty tests, scheduled for March, would be studied. Believing that these announcements “are not sufficient”, the unions call for “immediately to postpone the specialty tests”, to “cancel the mid-CP evaluations”, to “create all the positions necessary to ensure replacements, beyond the use of additional lists “and to” provide schools and establishments with protective equipment in sufficient numbers, well beyond the volumes announced “.
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They believe that the school also has “an urgent need for investment”. They ask for “a collective budget to allow massive recruitment and reduce the number of people in the classes”, and call for “increase the salaries of the staff”. Sud Éducation had already called on Friday for a strike on January 20, while the SNUipp-FSU, the first primary union, had indicated that there would be “different forms of mobilization” in the weeks to come.
The call for mobilization for Thursday is however less broad than for January 13, the teacher unions SE-Unsa, Snalc and Sgen-CFDT not having joined the movement this time. Other modes of action are also recommended for Thursday, the SNUipp-FSU having in particular proposed to the staff “to mobilize everywhere in front of their schools during the meridian break by posting “My school is cracking” and by broadcasting the images of this happening on social media”.
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