For salaries, working conditions, but also to defend public schools after the declarations of the Minister of Education: the main teaching unions are calling for a strike and demonstrations on Thursday 1er FEBRUARY. A day of mobilization described as“warning to the government” by the unions.
In Paris, a demonstration will leave at 2 p.m. from Luxembourg (6e district) to the Ministry of National Education (7e), at the call of the main teaching unions (FSU, CGT, FO, SUD-Education, UNSA-Education, SGEN-CFDT). Demonstrations are announced in many other cities.
According to feedback from its representatives in Paris and the region, the FSU-SNUipp, the main primary school teachers’ union, is counting on “an average of 40% of strikers in the territory”with “65% of strikers in Paris, more than 50% in Val-de-Marne, Drôme, Ardèche and even in the Pyrénées-Atlantique”, he specifies in a press release published Tuesday January 30.
The teachers want to launch “a warning to the government”Who “remain deaf”. “The situation worsened with the appointment of a part-time minister who discredited herself from her first speeches by attacking public, secular and free schools”adds the union in the press release.
Elimination of 650 positions in 2024
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, has made several blunders since taking office on Rue de Grenelle in mid-January, including her comments justifying the registration of her children in a private school by “the bundle of hours not seriously replaced” in the public kindergarten that her eldest son attended for a few months.
“For some, it was a trigger to mobilize,” told Agence France-Presse (AFP) Guislaine David, general secretary of FSU-SNUipp. These statements have “left traces”echoes Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of SNES-FSU, the first secondary education union (middle and high schools). “We feel great anger” with “the feeling of being taken around by the executive”Who “cares little about everyday life” teachers, she adds.
“For several years, the school has been in crisis” And “working conditions for staff and learning conditions for students have deteriorated”, writes FSU-SNUipp in its press release. Professors “are no longer replaced and at the start of the 2024 school year, the elimination of 650 primary school positions will lead to multiple class closures throughout the country”.