An Intersyndical has called for last Thursday mobilization for “strong responses” and massive investments in education.
Le Monde with AFP
One week after a magnitude, a call to a new mobilization Thursday, January 20th in schools, colleges and high schools is launched to ask “strong answers” against the “chaos” generated by the sanitary crisis, and massive investments in education.
Unions Union Union Federation (FSU), General Confederation of Labor – including Education -, Force Ouvrière and South Education, as well as the Federation of Parents’ Advice, First Organization of Parents, and High school and democratic high school students, high school student movement and high school life have called up to “pursue mobilization”, engaged in “in a new day of action on January 20, including by the strike”, in a Communiqué.
This mobilization “must lead to a massive strike on January 27 as part of the interprofessional call for wages and employment, they added. For these organizations, “the chaos generated by the management of the health crisis deserves strong responses, beyond the commitments made by the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Education” on 13 January.
“An urgent investment need”
Teachers and other national education staff, exasperated by the VALSE of health protocols related to COVID-19, conducted a magnitude strike on Thursday, at the end of which the Government promised them 5 million FFP2 masks and substitutes, including the recruitment of “3,300 more contractual” and the use of complementary lists (candidates who have passed the contest and have not been recruited, but were well ranked). The government has also announced that “MI-CP” assessments would be “postponed to a time limit to define”, and that a possible postponement of the tray specialty tests, initially planned for March, would be studied.
Believing that these ads “are not sufficient”, the unions call to “immediately postpone specialty tests”, to “cancel MI-CP evaluations”, to “create all the necessary positions to ensure replacements, Beyond the use of complementary lists “and” equip schools and establishments with sufficient protection material, far beyond the advertised volumes “.
They feel that the school also has “an urgent investment need”. They ask for “a budget collective to allow massive recruitments and reduce enrollment in classes”, and call for “increasing the salaries of staff”.
“Forms of different mobilization”
South Education had already called on Friday to the strike on January 20, while the SNUIPP-FSU, the first primary school union, had announced “different forms of mobilization” in the coming weeks. The call for mobilization for Thursday is, however, less broad than for January 13, the Teacher Unions SE-UNSA, SNALC and SGEN-CFDT not having this time joined the movement.
Other modes of action are also recommended for Thursday, the SNUIPP-FSU who has proposed to the staff “to mobilize everywhere in front of their schools during the meridian break by posting” my school crack “and broadcasting the images from this happening on social networks “.