If Frédéric (47 years old, school teacher, disability reference teacher in Paris) cannot deny his “own degraded working conditions and those of colleagues, through indirect grievances” when he goes from school to school, from 1st as of the 2nd degree, in the private as in the public, he goes to the RDVA to “have ideas and proposals to help colleagues”. From inspectors to teaching staff, including management staff and administrative staff, agents of the Ministry of National Education, the administration mainly represented during this day, were present in force during this 4th edition of the RDVA. Let’s find out what pushed them to participate and come and debate around the theme of QVCT.
“First of all because I am never disappointed by the training offered by UNSA Education, to share our experiences with colleagues, gather information on our rights and the duties of our employer. We are all likely to encounter difficulties given the deterioration of our working conditions,” declares Daisy, 48, a specialist teacher assigned to a medical-educational institute (IME) specializing in autism spectrum disorders, during of the Marseille RDVA. His testimony is complemented by a participant from Rennes, IEN aged 52: “We clearly see today that our working conditions are evolving, not necessarily in the right direction, and that there is probably a need to tackle it collectively” .
Regardless of where the participants of the RDVA are questioned, in France or overseas, the expression of a feeling of “enormous deterioration of our working conditions” strongly emerges. As quoted by Anne, a 44-year-old school director in Ile-de-France. His daily life is littered with massive difficulties such as “the inclusion of students with disabilities waiting for places in IME, a massive influx of increasingly less qualified contract workers, the lack of AESH in number and an increase in management tasks in relation to discharge time”. She is therefore delighted with her participation in the RDVA which was able to “observe that it is abnormal, in particular from the mouth of a workplace health and safety inspector (invited to share his experience during this 4th Parisian RDVA) while on the field, we are told that it is the evolution of the profession which requires this”. In Avignon too, this major annual meeting made it possible to free the words of a 49-year-old school director on the subject in particular of the institutional mistreatment carried out by the various injunctions, often contrary, from her Ministry. She then welcomed the intervention of the staff representative sitting in F3SCT* who presented them with the tools available in terms of well-being at work, supplemented by a speaker from MGEN.
Without the RDVA, agents of the Ministries of National Education, Youth and Sports, Culture, Agricultural Education and Higher Education and Research could think that their issues in terms of QVCT are specific to each of their Ministry, remaining huddled in the solitude of their increasingly degraded working conditions: aging premises and equipment, cumbersomeness and slow response from the administration faced with the urgent needs of colleagues in the field, lack of time for consultation between the different services and trades, etc.
In a timely and intelligent manner in its implementation and animation “in collective intelligence mode”, this annual meeting of UNSA Education professions breaks this isolation, as demonstrated during the Parisian event Myriam, 53 years old, technician of laboratory, member of the National Union of Higher Education Personnel (SNPTES-UNSA). She says she is reassured to no longer feel alone and to see “that we are all in the same boat”. During this day, she even met her colleague Aurélie, 47 years old, SAENES** staff working in the same establishment as her, so large that they had never met before. Aurélie came following ergonomic issues at her workstation, she tells us that she left with clarifications on what defines QVCT and answers that she will be able to apply the next day, following the discussions during the participatory workshops and in particular the one led by a hypnotherapist. Also in Rennes, a 52-year-old IEN ASH recognizes that “the content of the afternoon is very constructive with cross-reflection, shared in a rather skillful and playful way by imagining the worst and best scenario. This allows us to move away from the essentials which will lead us to perhaps identify collective means of action, because we are all somewhat isolated in our professions, even in our daily lives subject to injunctions and different pressures. I think we really need that. »
The RDVA is the realization of this need for a place and a time to come together, to “brainstorm”, to “take the time to settle down, to discuss seriously but also in a humorous tone , while saying things to each other, by going through with the process collectively”, expressed by Céline, a 47-year-old Breton assistant principal, who thanks the RDVA UNSA-Education for offering her “the opportunity to hear the words of other staff. We are management staff, we exchange with each other, we also exchange with our colleagues, but in a broader way, to have the vision of teachers from other establishments, 1st degree, 2nd degree, AESH, etc. in a more free way than in an establishment or it can be a little biased.” Indeed, it is because the RDVA is a moment of freedom, outside of school time, essential to catch one’s breath in a hectic daily life and to meet “all the colleagues, (…) we saw technicians, losers , ddfpt, inspectors, colleagues who have the same functions as me, administrative staff, etc. », that it is also “an opportunity to get out of the context of work”, for a general secretary in EPLE from Rennes, 47 years old.
Finally, when we ask colleagues what they will remember from this day, Stéphane, 55, a teacher seconded to the Teaching Unit of a university hospital in the Marseille region, replies that it is “everything firstly, the listening and kindness of everyone which allows exchanges. Then, respect for words, the desire to share for the students, the school of tomorrow and for us, motivated and resilient professionals. I learned a lot of things: the existing systems on the one hand, the names of the union professionals who can help us, advise us, reassure us. In three words: A BIG THANK YOU.”
F3SCT: specialized training in health, safety and working conditions
SAENES: administrative secretaries of national education and higher education
