“Aren't you ashamed of throwing the teaching world out to pasture? Why are you lying? You know we don't work 24 hours!” The video of this intervention is short and we see Nicolas Sarkozy seized by this outburst, to which he does not respond. The trade unionist asserts the figures from the Ministry of National Education which speaks of 43 hours per week of effective work. Just a few words from the former head of state: “If you want to bother us…And my boy! Goodbye” End of the discussion which will not take place this last Friday in the Arcadia bookstore, in Saint-Barnabé (12th arrondissement of Marseille).
A right of reply
Sébastien Fournier, teacher in the northern districts of Marseille, tells France Bleu Provence behind the scenes. “We accessed him quite simply by buying his book. At the time of signing, I wanted to start a discussion. And it didn't take place because I was asking him to respond to truths. And so at the end of 40 seconds, I was quietly exfiltrated by his security service.” When we point out the very direct tone of his intervention, the co-head of the Snuipp-FSU union in Bouches-du-Rhône mentions “a legitimate right of response. He also made very direct remarks and he was not concerned about our reaction. People are shocked. We responded at the same level as him.” Sébastien Fournier emphasizes that he was not rude. The small delegation offered the book by a colleague from Martigues, Frédéric Grimaud: “Teachers: the new proletarians”. Not sure that Nicolas Sarkozy will make it his bedside book.
In its call to demonstrate on December 5, the union refers to this video “relayed several tens of thousands of times” on social networks, “proof that it resonates with the feelings of an entire profession.”
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