On the first day of his official visit to Reunion, this Wednesday, August 16, Gabriel Attal, the Minister of National Education, received representatives of several unions at the rectorate. Except the members of the FSU who decided to boycott the meeting to demonstrate under the windows of the building, in Saint-Denis.
HA/ACK • Posted Aug 16, 2023 7:26 PM, Updated Aug 16, 2023 8:33 PM
Members of the FSU took out their banners and placards this Wednesday, August 16, on the first day of Gabriel Attal’s official visit to Reunion. The teachers’ union has decided to boycott the interview offered to the various organizations by the Minister of National Education at the rectorate.
They refused to participate in the exchange but they nevertheless gathered in front of the gates of the rectorate, in Saint-Denis, to demonstrate at the end of the afternoon. For the FSU, this coming of Gabriel Attal to Reunion would be nothing more than a “communication operation”.
“Mr. Attal invited all the unions for an hour-long discussion, but in one hour we cannot solve the problems of National Education“, criticizes Marie Hélène D’or, the departmental secretary of the organization.
The interview of Marie Hélène D’or and Béchir Ben Hamouda on Réunion La 1ère:
The FSU boycotts the meeting with Minister Gabriel Attal • ©Réunion la 1ère
The trade unionist believes that her union is not responsible for the breakdown in dialogue. “When the representative unions wanted to take up the issue of the Teacher Pact, the ministry refused to allow it to be discussed and voted on before thesocial dialogue body concerned“, she defends.
“The pact is not a salary increase but rather a fool’s game with teachers“, she says again. Asked about Réunion La 1ère radio, Guillaume Aribaud, the departmental co-secretary of the FSU, goes further in the argument.
“Beyond the salary increase, the main problem with the Pact is above all that these are new missions. So we don’t call it a raise, we call it getting paid for extra work.“, he launches.
“And in addition, it is often to hide the lack of means, for example, since a large part of the pact is to offer short-term replacements. Ultimately, we manage to demonstrate that we put a teacher in front of each student without putting additional resources“.
The FSU demonstrated in front of the gates of the rectorate, boycotting the meeting given to the unions by Minister Gabriel Attal • ©Florence Bouchou
“If we didn’t go to the hearing, it’s to clearly show Gabriel Attal that we don’t need him.launches in turn Béchir Ben Hamouda, school teacher and co-secretary of the FSU Snuipp 974. The announcements he made this morning are only the resumption of what was already planned”.
The trade unionist explains for example that the 28 teachers recruited in the 1st degree are those who were on the complementary list opened last June.
The 180 additional positions of assistants for students with disabilities (AESH)? “It was already announced since last year when former minister Pap NDiaye came. Gabriel Attal is in ads that bring nothing more, nothing new“, concludes Béchir Ben Hamouda.
The FSU demands in particular that the entire department be placed in a priority education zone. She also denounces, for example, working conditions that are far from optimal with, for example, a very degraded school building. “Nothing has changed for several years!“
#Gabriel #Attals #visit #Reunion #FSU #boycotts #meeting #unions #rectorate #Réunion #1ère
