Low salaries, stress, sense loss, social workers call for the strike on Tuesday. Training schools in the social trades no longer attract young people.
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Social workers can no longer and want to let it know. They are 1.2 million to accompany, support, help, insert, educate or simply listening to the 10 million most fragile citizens of French society, seniors in loss of autonomy, beneficiaries of the active solidarity income (RSA) On the path of employment, people with disabilities, homeless, drifting young people or who suffer from behavioral disorders, undocumented … The call to the national strike, Tuesday, December 7, launched by most Unions, the CGT, Solidarity and South Health, the Unit Federation Unit (FSU), various collectives such as the crushes of the social or unleashed social and even the CFDT, meeting, this year, a particular echo.
“Many of our members, however, is not the habit, will this time be on the street,” says Stéphane Racz, General Manager of Nexem, a network of 11,000 non-profit private sector institutions in the fields sanitary, disability, child protection, great age or social inclusion, and which employs 330,000 employees. The promise of segur health, which revalued public sector salaries and forgotten the sectors Associative and private as ours, exacerbates inequalities by providing evidence of more than the invisibility of our work in the eyes of the public authorities and the entire society and weakens teamwork “, does it argue.
In November, regional movements had already gathered unusual crowds, both employees and employers, elected officials and families, 5,000 protesters in Nantes or 2,500 in Strasbourg. The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, on 8 November, referred to a future “Social and Medical Social Accompaniment Trades Conference” by January 15, 2022, “but we have no date, no precision and do not receive any response to our letters, “worries Mr. Racz.
” Lack of recognition “
The priority claim, Tuesday, therefore concerns the wages, weak and never re-evaluated: “Through the fifteen years that the index point is frozen, is part of Alexander Lebarbey, representing CGT of the health, social, medico-private private sector Non-profit. When I started my career as an educator, my salary exceeded the SMIC of 500 euros; today, for a beginner, the gap is only 100 euros. ”
Raphaëlle (who wants to keep anonymity) works, she, for the integration of the beneficiaries of the RSA: “After ten years of career, I earn 2,000 euros, bonuses included, and, in my department where life is expensive, I pay a rent of 900 euros and spends 300 euros of professional transport costs … Living with what remains, it is very difficult! “After seventeen years of career, my salary caps at 2 100 euros and, like all my colleagues, I am systematically discovered every end of the month, “says Frédéric Motel, educator in therapeutic and educational institute with children and young people suffering from behavioral disorders.
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