Education Workers Strike Again: Demands for Better Working Conditions

2024-02-02 22:16:24
Faced with the success of Thursday’s mobilization, the decision was taken by several unions this Friday, February 2 to go on strike once more next week, to demand better working conditions.

The wrath of the teaching world does not subside. At the end of an inter-union meeting organized this Friday, February 2 in the followingnoon, several unions are once once more calling on staff to go on strike on Tuesday, February 6. Satisfied with a significant mobilization on Thursday February 1, the representatives of the teaching staff do not want to stop there. Salaries, working conditions, level groups, defense of public schools and crystallization around the controversies of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the demands are numerous, and will not be resolved in one day. “To win, let’s continue the action!”, launches the Snes-FSU to the teachers.

“Register for the long term”

In its press release, “47% of middle school, high school and CIO staff were on strike on February 1,” recalls the union (20.26% of teachers according to the ministry). Despite the significant mobilizations of farmers, the professors and teachers made themselves heard by Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, to the point of making the main person react on TF1 this Friday morning, who insisted that she was not considering resigning. The Sud Education union considers in its press release that “the minister has no legitimacy” and that “she must immediately satisfy our demands for our salaries and the public education service”.

In addition to the day of mobilization on Tuesday, the unions are seeing things big, with “diversified actions […] proposed the rest of the week to make the demands of staff for public schools heard,” specifies Snes-FSU. In a separate press release, the CGT Éduc’action also calls on “staff to make the week of February 5 a week of action in Education”. The objective now: “To be long-term.”

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