About fifty of the seventy teachers of the apprentice training center (CFA) of Blois gathered, Monday, December 12, in freezing cold, on the forecourt of the grain hall of the city. Protected by a thick cap, Sophie Bourgon has been a hairdressing teacher for four years. “I arrived to replace an incumbent who was retiring. Today, we are three hairdressing teachers, all on fixed-term contracts, for 150 young people. In what job do you have to chain non-stop fixed-term contracts for so many years? »
Low pay is another source of discontent. “Among my students on an apprenticeship contract, some receive 1,370 euros for thirty-five hours a week, including their sixteen hours of lessons. Me, I am at 1,500 euros net… ” Sophie loves her job, these young people she accompanies towards excellence: “We try to build attractive CVs for them, by taking them to competitions, by having them meet Raphaël Perrier at Le Mans, an internationally recognized hairdresser…”
“Well, it’s all about our free timeshe explains, because we don’t want to puncture their few hours of lessons, but at some point, we no longer want to. » Behind her, Christophe Jauffrion, who has been teaching the chemistry of tinted or bleached hair for thirty years. Today, he earns 2,200 euros net per month: “Those who start are at 1,450 euros with twenty-one hours of lessons per week, against eighteen in general education. It’s pitiful, isn’t it? At this price, we do not retain much, except people without desire. The others leave. »
“It becomes the factory”
He regrets recent reforms, such as the advent of “skill operators” in 2019, then the regionalization of chambers of trades and crafts in 2021. “Before, I was able to put together files to finance additional memorization aid training for my students. Now all that is denied…”, he explains. According to the testimonies, the feeling of being the “forgotten from teaching” dominates among these strikers.
Their mobilization is added to those, very recent, of the trainers of the CFA of Vannes, Lorient (Morbihan), Plérin (Côtes-d’Armor), Rouen, Chartres, Orléans or even Lézignan-Corbières (Aude). After twenty-four years as a mechanic then workshop manager in a Volkswagen garage, Olivier Legros turned to the CFA in Blois out of a desire to pass on knowledge. Here he is disillusioned. “I have never gone on strike, but at some point we have tohe regrets. We need to stop taking ourselves for idiots. » Already four years of CDD too, and still no CDI. His salary stagnates at 1,700 euros net.
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