A majority of teachers of this establishment with 1,200 apprentices went on strike on Monday, December 12, to denounce “lamentable” wages and a lack of recognition. Analogous strikes multiply across the country.
by Jordan Pouille (regional correspondent)
About fifty of the seventy teachers from the Apprentice Training Center (CFA) in Blois gathered on Monday, December 12, in an icy cold, on the forecourt of the city hall. Protected by a thick hat, Sophie Bourgon has been a hairdressing teacher for four years. “I arrived to replace a retired holder. Today, we are three hairdressing teachers, all on fixed-term contracts, for 150 young people. In what job should we chain non-stop fixed cdd for so many years ? “
Low wages is another source of dissatisfaction. “Among my students on an apprenticeship contract, some receive 1,370 euros for thirty-five hours per week, including their sixteen hours of lessons. I am at 1,500 euros net …” Sophie loves her job, these young people that ‘She accompanies to excellence: “We try to build attractive CVs, taking them to contests, making them meet Raphaël Perrier at Le Mans, a hairdresser recognized internationally …”
“Well, all that is in our free time, she explains, because we do not want to punctuate their few hours of lessons, but at some point, we no longer want “Behind her, Christophe Jauffrion, who teaches the chemistry of the tinted or discolored hair for thirty years. Today, he earns 2,200 euros net per month: “Those starting are 1,450 euros with twenty-one lessons per week, against eighteen in general education. It’s lamentable, right? This price, we don’t remember much, except people without envy. The others leave. “
” it becomes the factory “
regrets recent reforms, such as the advent of “skills operators” in 2019, then the regionalization of chambers of trades and crafts in 2021. “Before, I managed to set up files to finance a Additional training of assistance in memorization for my students. Now, all that is refused … “, he explains. At the whim of testimonies, the feeling of being the “forgotten of teaching” dominates in these strikers.
Their mobilization is added to those, very recent, trainers from CFAs de Vannes, Lorient (Morbihan), Plérin (Côtes-d’Armor), Rouen, Chartres, Orléans or Lézignan (Aude). After twenty-four years as a mechanic and then workshop manager in a Volkswagen garage, Olivier Legros turned to Blois CFA by desire to transmit. Here it is disillusioned. “I have never gone on strike, but at one point, we are forced,” he regrets. We must stop taking us for idiots. “Already four years of fixed-term contract too, and still no CDI. His salary stagnates at 1,700 euros net.
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