The main union of primary school teachers (nursery and elementary schools) is forecasting 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
.
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.
Demonstrations announced
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.
“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 2:00 p.m. from Luxembourg (6th arrondissement) towards the Ministry of National Education (7th).
Demonstrations are announced in many other cities.