Staff Strike at Lycée Diderot Demanding Better Job Security and Rights

The holidays began on Friday for the students, but the mobilization of the staff is not weakening at the Lycée Diderot, in the northern districts of Marseille. This Monday, in the middle of the administrative week of preparation for the start of the 2023 school year, seventeen of the establishment’s thirty educational assistants (AEDs) were on strike, against ” insecurity “of their status and in support of three of their colleagues” threatened with non-renewal » of their contract. The movement was triggered last week in response to these threats, “ in a global climate of
precariousness and hierarchical pressures that affect many
school life services »indicates the CNT-so 13.

So far, negotiations with the headmaster have only resulted in a three-month contract proposal for two of the three non-renewed AEDs. Without a response from management, despite a letter of intention to strike sent a few days ago, the movement will be automatically renewed, warns the union.

« This is a clearly unacceptable situation from our point of view. These three-month contracts only push back the deadline and, above all, settle in a precariousness that we denounce… it will probably be necessary that
we are still remobilizing at the
back to school »explains a representative of the union under
covered with anonymity.

The list of demands, beyond the tenure of their three colleagues for the coming school year, from 1^is September 2023 to August 31, 2024,
is rather long. It ranges from the creation of a status of school educator under the guise of unconditional tenure for all staff who so wish, to the increase in salaries, the reduction in working hours, the abolition of the overnight package in boarding schools, or obtaining a REP/REP+ bonus. Among the demands is also the end of recruitment by heads of establishments in favor of academic recruitment. ” We are on the front line, as close as possible to the students, and the only ones who can make the dysfunctions heard. We only pay the bucks, they just want AED at attention »continues the representative of the AEDS CNT-so.

Struggling for years for the full recognition of their mission, the mobilized AEDs demand
also that “ cease the repression against the AEDs who fight, whose non-renewals constitute disguised dismissals “. The AEDs thus bring their support to their colleagues of Victor Hugo, who have been struggling and suffering repression for 2 years through non-renewals, suspensions and dismissals. »