FIGURES – According to the government, 38.5% of teachers were on strike when the unions counted 75% of strikers at school and 62% in colleges and high schools. How can such a discrepancy be explained?
Virginie FAUROUX –
At each event, it’s the same refrain. The same battle between the unions and the government over participation figures. The mobilization of this Thursday, January 13 in National Education is no exception to the rule. Thus, according to the ministry, 38.5% of teachers were on strike at school and 23.7% in colleges and high schools, while the SNUipp, the first primary union, announces 75% of strikers at school. and the Snes-FSU, the leading secondary school union, 62% in colleges and high schools. Between the two, it is difficult to know the exact extent of this strike movement, as the differences are significant.
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Strike of January 13, 2022: Black Thursday at school
Official figures reduced?
The explanation lies in completely different methods of calculation. To establish the official figures, the Ministry of National Education has been using the Mosart software since 2009, for “MOdule de Saisie des Absences et des Deductions sur Salaire”, on which the heads of establishments and the inspectors of the National Education ( IEN) indicate the number of strikers. However, the ministry does not carry out an exhaustive report on the situation, only the results of a sample of establishments considered to be “representative” are used to calculate their rate. “Without any details on the representativeness criteria used to compose this sample”, underlined the Snes in 2015.
In addition, the ministry asks the heads of establishments to trace the number of strikers by relating it to all the staff working in the establishment, and not only to the service personnel on the day of the strike. Thus a teacher on sick leave that day will be considered as not a striker and a striking teacher having lessons in the afternoon as well, because the number of strikers is counted on the morning of the mobilization. The rate announced (the percentage resulting from the calculation of the number of strikers compared to the total number of professors) is therefore that of the agents who will be subject to a deduction from salary.
Declarations of intent
On the union side, the SNUipp relies on a “representative panel of establishments” (of different sizes and with varying degrees of mobilization) in each department. Teachers in nursery or elementary school being required to declare themselves strikers at least forty-eight hours in advance, the union establishes its estimate thanks to these declarations. They do not, however, necessarily cover the actual number of strikers on the day, as teachers are not required to actually strike even if they have declared themselves.
In secondary education, the SNES-FSU does not work with a panel, but with its representatives in each establishment and only takes into account to calculate the number of teachers potentially on strike those who actually have class at a given time and who do not are not going to teach because they are on strike. Those who are not supposed to teach (not on the schedule, on sick leave, etc.) are not counted among those who can strike.
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Thus, for a school with 50 teachers (A), if on a strike day, 30 of them have classes in the morning (B), but 20 are on strike (C), Mosart will have 20/50 = 40% strikers ( because relating to the total workforce) when the SNES-FSU will claim a strike rate of 20/30 = 66%.
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