This is a new massive strike in education in Seine-Saint-Denis. This Thursday, the department's teachers largely responded to the call for a strike by public employees launched at the national level, against the spending reduction plans of the Barnier government, which has now resigned. The executive was considering in particular establishing three days of waiting time for civil servants in the event of sick leave and reducing the daily allowance to 90% of salary, compared to 100% currently.
If one in three teachers was on strike in the country according to figures from the Ministry of National Education, the rates claimed by the unions in the department are much higher. The SNUipp-FSU announces 78% of strikers in primary schools and more than 300 schools completely closed. According to secondary school unions, six or even seven out of ten teachers have gone on strike.
“This is the case, even in high schools. We have to go back to 2003 to find such mobilization. It’s really a profound movement that clearly expresses anger,” insists Zoé Butzbach, co-secretary of the CGT Educ’Action in 93. “The defense of public service clearly does not stop at the presence or absence of a government,” says Tony Tremblay, co-secretary of Snes-FSU. “There is also, it is notable, a rate of strikers which is very significant in school life, whether they are CPEs or educational assistants. »
If the movement has such magnitude in Seine-Saint-Denis, it is also because it follows several months of combat led by the inter-union, which is demanding an emergency plan for Education on a scale of the department. “The dissolution did not allow us to obtain an appointment at the ministry,” regrets Tony Tremblay, “so it is a relaunch of the mobilization. »
Received Wednesday by the academic director of Seine-Saint-Denis, the union leaders say they are worried. “We are not reassured about what she will report to the ministry. There is no question of us losing resources, even if our numbers drop,” defends Caroline Marchand of SNUipp-FSU.
Among the slogans, the hiring of 5,000 teachers and 2,000 AESH (supporting students with disabilities) and a renovation of buildings. “Accidents are increasing, we have a window which fell on a management assistant,” warns Zoé Butzbach, in reference to the accident which occurred on Monday in Stains. We are sinking. This year, things are getting worse again. Anger is still brewing, even if the mobilization has been less visible. »
Everyone is therefore preparing to return to the fight to make progress for the department, from January, once the new Minister of National Education has taken up residence on rue de Grenelle.
