For several months, the sector has been calling for salary increases and a plan to deal with the staff shortage. This Thursday, professionals will take to the streets again to denounce the conditions of reception of young children.
Cyrielle Thevenin – Today at 06:45
“We can’t wait any longer”, have been insisting early childhood professionals for several months. To make their demands heard again, faced with a deteriorating quality of reception, the early childhood sector is on strike this Thursday. Around thirty events are planned throughout France, such as on Place de la Comédie in Lyon, on Place Kléber in Strasbourg or in front of the prefecture in Dijon. Establishments should also remain closed.
“The idea is really to talk about a crisis that the sector is currently facing, with an impressive number of professionals lacking, 40% of childminders who will retire by 2030, and parents torn between the need to have their child looked after without having the assurance that their child is well. All the deregulations of recent years have undermined the teams, who are tired and can make inappropriate or even abusive gestures,” explains Emilie Philippe, spokesperson for the “No babies in the locker” collective, at the origin of the call for a strike.
Last month, the release of two shocking books once again shed light on existing mistreatment within certain young child care structures. “We have been warning for almost 15 years and the situation is as we feared. It’s unbearable to be in contact with professionals who are leaving the sector, to see that the profession is no longer attractive, insufficiently paid. The professionals do not mobilize so much for themselves and their working conditions as for the children and the welcome that should be given to them,” continues the spokesperson.
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Concrete measures expected
At the beginning of June, the government announced salary increases for early childhood professionals, as well as the upcoming creation of a “public early childhood service”. But the latter, as part of an article in the full employment bill, was rejected in the National Assembly two weeks ago.
For the unions, many of whom have filed strike notice for this Thursday, “concrete” responses to the unhappiness of the profession are still awaited. “The time is no longer for procrastination, urgent measures are necessary”, believes the SNUTER-FSU (FSU Territoriale) in its strike notice. The CGT Federation of Public Services, for its part, considers the executive’s refusal to grant the additional index salary “incomprehensible”.
to agents working in establishments welcoming young children. As for the CFDT Interco, it wishes to draw attention “to the suffering early childhood professionals, whose entire sector is now in tension”.
“What we would like is for us to be able to have quantified objectives in terms of improving the supervision rate, the number of training places to open to combat the shortage… Having clear, black and white objectives white, and not just good intentions,” insists Émilie Philippe. The unions are also demanding an end to the use of staff without qualifications or experience or even a salary increase of at least 10% for all. They will try to make themselves heard in the streets, for the first time since the appointment of Aurore Bergé as Minister of Solidarity.
During the Ségur de la santé agreements, a bonus was implemented for agents working in the health, social or medico-social sector. It has been perpetuated in the form of the additional index treatment.
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