Some students may well find themselves without a teacher this Thursday.
At the request of the CGT, Force Ouvrière, FSU and Sud Solidaires unions, teachers and teachers are called upon to take part in a strike movement.
They demand, among other things, a salary increase and better consideration of their activities "in a context (linked to the Covid-19 health crisis) which has made the progression of learning more complicated".
In a joint leaflet, the four unions call for a strike to denounce the "lack of anticipation and decision-making" of the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer. According to them, "the start of the school year would have required the establishment of an emergency plan and the massive creation of posts for education" which did not see the light of day. In the absence of this, the start of the 2021 school year was accompanied by a "refusal to cancel the job cuts" that the unions deplore on Thursday.
"There is an urgent need to increase the salaries of all staff", also believe the unions, who are asking that "staff salary expectations" be reassessed.
The minister announced in May an envelope of 700 million euros to achieve a revaluation, but "it is very difficult to see any prospects for revaluation for the years to come", say the strikers.
For the end of continuous monitoring
All the measures taken by the ministry "turn their backs on the priority of education and seek to transform in depth the trades" of education, denounce the unions. The latter are particularly opposed to the project to create a functional job for a school principal, which would create "additional pressure" on the principals, about which they have been concerned for several months already.
Finally, the strikers do not want to see continuous monitoring become the common thread of the baccalaureate.
They ask for the re-establishment of a pre-crisis baccalaureate, "with national, terminal and anonymous tests".
The unions fully intend, in the light of these demands, to prepare a major national action.
They also suggest to those they represent to participate, on October 5, in the interprofessional strike that is emerging.