The Unitary Trade Union Federation (FSU) of Seine-Saint-Denis has launched a new strike call for Thursday, January 20. The union is asking for measures concerning the health protocol, and an “emergency plan” to improve the working conditions and remuneration of staff.
After the day of mobilization on Thursday January 13, which brought together several thousand people in the capital, the FSU again called for a strike on January 20. “This Monday, we will not see anything concrete in our schools“, deplores the union in a statement. “After a day of strikes and historic demonstrations… We are not satisfied“, emphasizes the FSU.
Denouncing a “brutal policy” by Jean-Michel Blanquer and “five years of contempt“, the union lists a series of “promises” formulated by the Minister of National Education following January 13. “Regular bi-monthly dialogue with trade unions“, “five million FFP2 masks without specifying for whom exactly“, “recruitment of 3,300 more contractual professors knowing that there are no candidates for the positions already offered“, “recruitment of 1,500 AED (educational assistants) for 10,700 colleges and high schools throughout the territory, i.e. 1 AED for 7 establishments“… “Nothing on the health protocol, yet the detonator of the massive mobilization“, finally points the finger at the FSU.
The union, which deplores a “chronic underinvestment in the public education service“, thus calls for a new mobilization: “The minister is far from the expectations of colleagues“. The FSU asks for a “emergency planto improve working conditions and pay.
The trade union federation, which demands “real progress“, lists a series of requests, among which “a protective protocol, in particular the return to the rule “1 case = 1 closure”“, “CO2 sensors, air purifiers, gel“, “cancellation of assessments at mid CP“, “the postponement of the baccalaureate specialty exams in June“, and “the abolition of continuous monitoring“. The union also demands, among other things, “a massive plan to recruit permanent staff“, as well as'”a substantial and immediate increase in our salaries (…) to make recruitment attractive“.
Catherine Da Silva, representative of SNUipp-FSU 93, will participate in the strike on January 20, but also on January 27. This elementary school principal in La Plaine Saint-Denis says to herself “very angry” : “We have to keep putting the pressure on. Mr. Blanquer’s answers are not, he does not listen. Indeed, there is the health protocol crisis, which has changed I don’t know how many times, but it’s a symptom of what we’ve been suffering for a long time, it reveals the chaos in which we are.“
“Additional resources are needed, including hiring replacements, she continues. And you have to put trained people in front of the students, the school is not a daycare centre. Inevitably, it is also the question of salary increases: today, no one wants to become a teacher.“
“We’ve been in the health crisis for two years, there are children who are doing very badly, and I don’t even have a school psychologist in my school, also deplores Catherine Da Silva. We were already in a fragile state before the epidemic, at some point we have to give ourselves the means. The crisis raises the question of the damage to the public service.“
On a national level, the SNUipp-FSUwhich calls for “a massive strike on Thursday January 27“, also encourages a mobilization on January 20, “including by strike depending on local decisions“. “After the strike of January 13, FSU, FO, CGT, Sud éducation, the FCPE and the high school organizations are calling for continued mobilization via a new day of action on Thursday January 20, explains the union. The government must respond to all the anger and demands expressed, particularly in terms of health, resources and educational policy.” The SNUipp-FSU thus denounces a “fed up with the situation at school“, “unchanged and chaotic“, and calls in particular for a campaign of preventive tests, and more recruitment.
For its part, the FSU 93 specifies that the demonstrations and gatherings in Paris are “being organized“.
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