Posted on 31.03.2023 at 1:50 p.m. by Hawa Toumagnon
On strike since March 20, the unions of Higher Education and Scientific Research teachers renewed their slogan this week, from March 27 to 31, 2023. With new demands, which are added to the previous ones, they also brandish the threat of an upcoming work stoppage.
From five points initially claimed by the National Executive Committee of SNESUP, the Coordination of Higher Education and Scientific Research Teachers’ Unions now unifies its actions around nine points.
Beyond the claims related to the application and the revaluation of bonuses and salary indices, the securing of university space and the payment of arrears, the strikers add the massive recruitment of teacher-researchers, but also and above all the granting of a service passport to them.
According to Dr. Alou Diarra, Secretary General of the National Office of SNESUP, this strike is the logical continuation of actions that have been underway since the end of January. “These are legitimate demands of workers in higher education, we want the state to comply, because it is the state that signed the agreements in our favor. He must respect them”, he is offended
Watchword followed?
Insofar as the two-headedness at the head of SNESUP has persisted for a long time, the question of the follow-up of the strike slogan by all the teachers in the structures concerned arises. Mr. Diarra acknowledges that the difficulties within SNESUP have impacted “a few small structures, which are not with us”, like the INFSS, which does not follow the strike slogan.
But, according to him, it is followed at 86% by higher education structures. “If the ENI, the ENSUP, the FLSL, the School of Medicine, the FSEG, the FAG are on strike, there is nothing left of higher education”, argues the Secretary General of the National Office of SNESUP.
Our attempts to join the other camp have not succeeded, while Dr. Alou Diarra affirms that the strike goes beyond the framework of SNESUP and that “the three unions of Higher Education are all together to defend the material interests and morale of workers.
He announces that if the government does not react, this strike will be followed by another, lasting 120 hours, which will be sanctioned by a work stoppage pure and simple.
