“Three days of deficiency, and paying 90% during sick leave, it’s pure contempt”says a caregiver at the back of the procession. “Is this how we are thanked after everything we did during Covid? » Several hundred demonstrators – 630 according to the police count – gathered this Thursday, December 5, 2024 at the call of public service unions.
“People are exhausted, it’s not a sustainable system”
It is in an unprecedented political context that Indrian demonstrators responded to the national call for a strike to oppose the 2025 finance bill. The attempt to pass this text by 49.3 led the National Assembly to vote for a motion of censure, causing the fall of the government on Wednesday December 4, thus burying the bill and the savings measures denounced by the unions.
After the demonstration, a delegation of inter-union representatives was received by the prefect's chief of staff.
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This unprecedented political crisis situation has not “not at all questioned the mobilization”assures Mickaël Bret, CFDT secretary of Indre and caregiver. “It doesn’t change anything about our demandshe continues, we must stop suffocating the public service. What we are asking is to have the means to do our work, and to make a decent living from it. There is a real shortage of staff. We try to compensate for it with overtime. But people are exhausted, it's not a sustainable system. »
30 km to find a post office
Teachers also mobilized widely. “We have around thirty schools closed in the department, and 60% of primary school teachers on strike”indicates Pierre Laumonier, departmental co-secretary SNUipp – FSU 36 and teacher at the Marins school. He is concerned about the potential to maintain contested measures, “which could be passed by decree, so we are here to send a message to the future government.”
Around thirty primary schools in Indre were closed this Thursday, December 5.
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Coralie Raveau, is a teacher at the Blaise-Pascal vocational high school. “We have been so despised lately, it’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back”she says. “They want to cut us 220 positions, and increase the number of students, while the classes are already overcrowded. » A situation which, according to her, created “a real discomfort for some colleagues”.
In addition to the fatigue that working conditions cause for agents, Josiane Delaune, departmental secretary of the CGT, is also worried about seeing the Indre pass “from a medical desert to a service desert”. Ici, “you have to travel at least 30 kilometers to find a post office, the services disappear one after the other”. So whether it is this government or the next one, “it’s still Macron at the head, so it won’t change anything”, she regrets. At the end of the demonstration, a delegation from the inter-union was received at the prefecture.
