The farmers, the taxis… then the teachers.
The main union of primary school teachers (nursery and elementary schools) anticipates a strike rate of 40% for the day of mobilization scheduled for Thursday, described as a “warning to the government,” it said in a press release Tuesday evening.
According to feedback from its representatives in Paris and the region, the FSU-SNUipp is counting on “an average of 40% of strikers in the territory”, with “65% of strikers in Paris, more than 50% in Val-de- Marne, Drôme, Ardèche or even in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques”.
A “warning to the government”
The teachers thus want to issue “a warning to the government”, which “remains deaf”.
“The situation worsened with the appointment of a part-time minister who discredited herself from her first speeches by attacking public, secular and free schools,” adds the union in the press release.
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
She has made several blunders since taking office on rue de Grenelle in mid-January, including her comments justifying the registration of her children in a private school by "the number of hours not seriously replaced" in the public kindergarten that her eldest son dated for a few months.
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“For several years, the school has been in crisis” and “working conditions for staff and learning conditions for students have deteriorated,” writes FSU-SNUipp.
Teachers “are no longer replaced and at the start of the 2024 school year, the elimination of 650 primary school positions will lead to multiple class closures throughout the country”.
Most teaching unions (FSU, CGT, FO, SUD-Education, UNSA-Education, SGEN-CFDT) called for this day of mobilization.
In Paris, a demonstration will leave at 2 p.m. from Luxembourg (6th arrondissement) towards the Ministry of National Education (7th).
Demonstrations are announced in many other cities.