The Minister of National Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, during a question session to the government, at the National Assembly, January 24, 2024. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
Education unions readily affirm this: Amélie Oudéa-Castéra “catalyzed” discontent. The controversies surrounding the remarks of the new Minister of National Education and the schooling of her children in the Parisian private school Stanislas have amplified the strike movement planned for February 1st. Launched in December by four unions – the FSU, FO, the CGT and SUD – around questions of remuneration and working conditions, the mobilization was joined by the SGEN-CFDT, the UNSA-Education and the Snalc, but also organizations representing school heads, national education or private education inspectors. The unions expect strong mobilization. In primary schools, the SNUipp-FSU, the main teaching organization in primary schools, expects 40% of strikers on average and up to 65% in Paris.
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The movement today covers broader slogans than those initially launched. They may differ from one organization to another and range from inclusive schools to opposition to vocational high school reform. In a joint press release, the FSU, the CGT, SUD, the UNSA and the SGEN-CFDT highlight “their attachment to the educational project of public, secular, free and compulsory school”to know “welcome all students everywhere without distinction of any kind, be ambitious for everyone ». “We denounce policies that organize a form of social separatism and contribute to undermining social cohesion and our democracy”they say.
“The start of the school year in January felt like an unreasonable after-party for education staff. We can’t let everything be done against school, we can’t let everything be said”judge Elisabeth Allain-Moreno, secretary general of SE-UNSA, for whom teachers are asking ” respect “.
“The professional identity of teachers” achieved
The movement also aims to raise awareness once again about the crisis that schools are going through. “Like the public hospital, the public school is not far from collapse and is ultimately only held together by the professional conscience of exhausted staff”, affirm together the FSU, the CGT, SUD, the UNSA and the SGEN-CFDT. Teachers want to express their ” Fed up “says Elisabeth Allain-Moreno.
According to the second edition of the Barometer of well-being at work of education personnel, carried out by the ministry, their professional satisfaction is at a lower level than all French people in employment, and career prospects and level remuneration remain sources of discontent. “This mobilization follows the social alerts that we filed in each department at the end of 2023. The working conditions of teachers are degraded. We lack staff for everything, particularly for educational inclusion. Meanwhile, the government responds uniformly, Marseillaise and “clash of knowledge”Tance Guislaine David, spokesperson for SNUipp-FSU.
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