“The trigger was the three days of shortfalls and the 10% reduction in remuneration for the following days, recalls Paul Agard, general secretary of SNUIPP 37. For one month of shutdown, teachers will lose nearly 20% of their salary; an average loss of €250 to €380 has been calculated. » But the tightening of the compensation system for sick leave for civil servants is not the only measure, appearing in the 2025 finance bill, to make teachers react. “The announcement of the elimination of 4,000 positions, including 3,100 in primary education, caused a lot of harm. We're already at the bone. Of course, demographics are causing us to lose students, but the learning difficulties are increasing…”
“Without animator, no minimum service”
The strike of public sector agents, Thursday December 5, 2024, with a demonstration, at 2 p.m., from Place Jean-Jaurès, at the call of the trade union organizations CGT, CFDT, UNSA, FSU, Solidaires, CFE- CGC, FA-FP, promises to be very popular in schools in Indre-et-Loire. Saturday November 30, the FSU-SNUIPP 37 union carried out a “quick survey” out of 70 schools (the department has 585) and concluded that “75% strikers” in these establishments, more than thirty of which would keep all classes closed. Overall, Paul Agard is counting on 50% of strikers in all schools. For example, in Amboise, five out of ten schools will be closed. “It’s been a long time since we’ve had such motivation. We have everything: people who don't usually go on strike, others who are disillusioned and who won't go to demonstrate. Many are waiting to see if we will still have a government on Wednesday…”
Many parents were informed, as of Monday, that they will have to look after their children, as the minimum service cannot always be put in place. Thus in Véretz (more than 400 students) where only three teachers out of around fifteen will teach the lessons. “As I only have one non-striking leader, I cannot welcome the children, explains Mayor Gilles Augereau. It would be too risky to have them looked after by agents not certified for the care of children or parents as we had thought of doing a few years ago. »
While officials will demand “means up to the task”of the “job creation” or the “revaluation of the index point”, other public services (municipal police, taxes, town halls, chamber of trades, etc.) could be disrupted. But to a lesser extent, anticipates Pascale Begnon, of the territorial FSU (local authorities and departmental council): “Agents are overwhelmed by the cost of living and dejected by the general climate. Even among activists, some will not strike… There is a certain resignation to constantly being singled out. » And to remember that “Even during the pension reform vote, departmental services never closed any services. »
“The State at the level of the worst possible bosses! »
At the Tours CHRU, we will be able to count on caregivers assigned to their positions by requisition. “Monthly we file strike notices to cover specific events, recalls Anita Garnier (Sud santé social). Our demands are identical every year, salaries, resources… With this latest Social Security budget, we are making agents pay double: on working conditions and on waiting days while in the private sector everything is compensated. The State is putting itself at the level of the worst possible bosses! »
It should also be noted that if FO mobilizes on Wednesday December 4 for the nursing homes of Indre-et-Loire, the union will be absent from the procession on Thursday. “Leapfrog strikes don’t work, comments Alexandre Robert, departmental secretary FO health 37. The demonstrations against pension reform have served us as a lesson. We will instead leave with the railway workers from December 10, until we obtain our demands…”
