AESH, professionals thanks to whom children with disabilities can follow their education, say “stop!”. They want to be paid according to their commitment, that their mission and their skills are recognized, a status in due form, they want to be able to claim permanent contracts (CDI). To get out of precariousness, they were mobilized this Thursday.
Supporters of students with disabilities (AESH) are mobilized this Thursday, January 16, 2025, to denounce their working conditions and what they consider to be injustices against them.
This national strike is relayed in the archipelago, by professionals who gathered in front of the headquarters of the rectorate, in Dothémare (Les Abymes).
They say they are precarious, sacrificed and invisible.
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AESH allows many children with disabilities to attend school. Without their support, these students could not be integrated into classes.
However, these speakers, according to what they denounce, are poorly paid and discredited within the Guadeloupe academy.
(…) They are in extreme precariousness. Worse : we have more than half of the academy's AESH who work 21 hours and who are only paid for 19:30 hours. There is no question that this can continue (…).
Eddy Ségur, general secretary of FSU Guadeloupe
Eddy Ségur, general secretary of FSU Guadeloupe
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Guadeloupe has 1650 AESH.
Teachers' unions consider these professionals indispensable. In these times when inclusion is advocated by the government, teachers cannot give students with disabilities all the attention they need, without penalizing the rest of the class.
For these organizations, it is absolutely necessary that each child concerned benefits from individualized support from a full-time AESH.
The trade union organizations which support the AESH (FSU, SNUipp-FSU and SNES-FSU) are demanding that a precise status be created for these National Education personnel.
They have several other demands. They are demanding regularization of payment for hours actually worked, with retroactivity. They want the implementation of terms and conditions for transition to permanent employment after 3 years of practice. They also require that they have access to professional training leave. Bringing contracts into compliance (number of weeks of work, work quota, level and seniority in the level, etc.) is necessary, from the point of view of the staff involved.
The rector of the Guadeloupe academy, Christine Gangloff-Ziegler, received and took the time to discuss with the spokespersons of the mobilized AESH this Thursday. She announced that she took their situation very seriously and, according to Karine Fronteau, assistant secretary of SNUipp-FSUPP responsible for 1st degree, she apologized and promised to regularize the AESH for whom all of the hours worked had not been paid. . After consultation with the Ministry of National Education, a regularization schedule should be put in place.
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The fact is that the overall changes are expected from the national executive.
