Education unions on all fronts

Salaries, working conditions, reform of the professional path, school map 2023-2024 are at the heart of the concerns of all professionals in theNational Education, mobilized since Tuesday January 17, 2023, at the national call of the FSU union. United in an Education inter-union, FSU-FO-CGT Educ’Action and Sud Education have written a letter to the parliamentarians of Cantal in several hands.

AESH, the example of an injustice

“The teaching professions are no longer a dream”. This is the unanimous observation of the teachers’ unions. The situation of AESH crystallizes all anger. Numbering 250 in the department, 93% women, they are forced to work part-time and earn around €800 per month. “However, it’s a real job, which requires great skills.

A gross increase of €287 in 33 years of career, is that a joke? “, gets annoyed Franck Lacrampe, departmental secretary of the CGT Éduc’action. They often need a second job to survive. “We are asking for a real status and a salary grid accordingly”.

Teachers from Cantal “walked” to the 4 winds

The casualization of teachers is everywhere. But in Cantal an exception has become the rule: allocation to several establishments. Philippe Llau from SNES-FSU reports that one of her colleagues, an English teacher at Jules Ferry College, covers three establishments. “How to get involved when you are transported from Ydes to Aurillac via Maurs? “.

Beyond the untenable working conditions, the question of wages is central. “Without a decent salary, even contract workers don’t want to come or take 3 weeks” The purpose of the negotiations which resume this week is to decide how to distribute the €635 million envelope voted under the 2023 finance law to increase teachers’ salaries.

“An organized precariousness”

The Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, had promised a salary of 2,000 euros net per month for new teachers at the start of the 2023 school year and an upgrade for the start of their careers. “And us, the old ones? Plague Franck Lacrampe. “With the teachers’ pact, we were promised upgrades… subject to additional tasks. In this context, the 10% increase promised for all teachers will not be enough and will still not make it possible to reach the average salary of teachers in OECD countries”.

The contempt and mistreatment of staff

Stalled wages and degraded working conditions explain the cascading work stoppages. Burn-out, depressionsanxiety-depressive syndrome, the trade unionist storms: “They have rotten our working conditions for us, basically they are consistent: I am forced to do shitty work, I am paid shitty”. Denis Loudièremathematics teacher at Lycée Monnet-Mermoz to insist: “And if the teachers are sick, the students are sick”.

10 teaching posts cut?

Another concern of the Education unions: the school map for the next school year.

According to our information, the 2023 school map would provide a loss of 168 students in Cantal which would result in the elimination of 10 positions in the 1st degree. But which Cantal municipalities will be impacted? Stéphanie Lavergne, deputy departmental secretary FSU recalls that for the moment there has not been the departmental breakdown.

Requested by our editorial staff, the DASEN confirmed the elimination of 58 1st degree teaching posts at the Clermont-Ferrand academy, without confirming the number of post deletions in Cantal. The details of the measures taken for the department should be made public during the month of June.

An unfair and incomprehensible bloodletting

However, for union official Stéphanie Lavergne, the budget cut will take place, despite the almost stable workforce on the forecast of the DSDEN and the rectorate. “Throughout the academy, Cantal is the department that will lose the fewest 1st degree students: 51 out of a total of approximately 8,500.

What is certain is that we are going to suffer a drain in terms of positions.” The question is asked by the unions: How will DASEN be able to meet the needs of the department under these conditions? How will it be able to supplement the replacement brigades? How will she be able to top up the RASEDs?

A letter sent to parliamentarians

For all these questions, the inter-union signed a letter to Cantal parliamentarians to question the salaries of all education staff in Cantal. “We ask that deputies and senators from Cantal take up the subject, relay and act in favor of improving the living conditions of agents in the Education professions. We expect a lot from them.”

Mary Boudon

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