Four unions (FSU, FO, CGT and Sud) are calling on teachers, as well as other education personnel (supervisors, AESH), to pound the pavement in Perpignan this Thursday, September 23. To claim salary increases and hiring.
High school reform, health crisis, job cuts … In recent years, the teaching profession has experienced many upheavals. And in this re-entry, the social climate within the profession seems explosive.
“The 19 resignations of teachers from schools identified in the department between last year and the start of the school year clearly show that there is unease”, judge Christopher Pereira, of Education.
“The ministry felt that it was easier to close classes or leave students at home than to find ways to avoid all of that, rather than hiring so that students could work in smaller groups,” deplores Tanguy Lorre, of the FO Education Federation (Fnec-FO). In the first degree, we are told that we must not stir the students. But there are no posts to avoid this mixing: we are at the start of the year and the 145 or so replacements in the department have all already been taken … “
Take into account the impact of the health crisis
Christophe Moya, from the CGT Educ’action, agrees. According to him, to get out of the rut, you have to launch “an emergency plan with real resources allocated to take into account the impact that the health crisis has had on students.”
The low salaries of French teachers compared to their counterparts in many other countries are also a source of anger. “In the latest survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), French teachers are ranked twelfth in terms of salaries, behind Portugal, details Geraldine Morales, from the union of middle and high school teachers Snes-FSU. The revaluation announced by Blanquer is well below what we expected. Just like that granted to accompanying persons with disabilities (AESH). As for the educational assistants (AED, ex-supervisors), who mobilized last year, they simply had nothing … “
This is why the intersyndicale calls on all Education staff to meet this Thursday, September 23 at 9:30 a.m. on Place de la Victoire in Perpignan. To participate in a large general assembly and then parade in procession from 10:30 a.m.
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