"The rotting strategy, after a while it works a little ..." sighs Frédéric, a physics and chemistry professor hired for six weeks against the pension reform. Even if in places, like in Paris, the teachers remain many not wanting to disarm, the sling of classrooms promises to be less significant, this Tuesday and Thursday, in schools, colleges and high schools, according to estimates by trade union organizations. Not that opponents of the reform believe they have won.
"It is above all that the fatigue is there," concedes Hakim Benbekta, trade unionist at Snuipp-FSU and school director in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), one of the strongholds of union protests. This Monday, all of the unions were received on rue de Grenelle, with the hope of leaving the minister's office with "something concrete" under their arms: first tangible elements on the way in which the teachers' salary increase will be deployed, promised for six weeks.
According to figures released after these meetings, 500 million euros will be spent from 2021 on wage increases to offset the effects of pension reform. By 2037, the envelope should reach 10 billion, which would place France "eventually as one of the countries that pays its teachers well," said Sunday Jean-Michel Blanquer on the set of LCI.
Like "sign at the bottom of a blank page ..."
However, the way in which the equation will be reflected on each teacher's payroll remains unknown. The first discussions on the script will not take place until February 6. "It comes down to asking us to sign at the bottom of a blank page ..." quips Francette Popineau, spokesperson for SnuiPP, the main primary union.
"Promises, we have already been made of them and all we have seen so far is the freezing of the index point and the postponement of the increase of 300 euros per year which was planned there is two years ”, weighs Hakim Benbekta.
A distrust to which is added a shovel of annoyed anger, after the painful vote of the law for the “School of confidence” last year, and the reform of the high school, which is being deployed with difficulties at the moment in institutions. It is already causing, in places, new movements of anger.
