There is great anger in National Education. The Minister of the Civil Service, Guillaume Kasbarian, gives a speech that amounts to civil servant bashing and multiplies the untruths. We forcefully remind you: National Education staff are no more absent than in the private sector. The increase from 1 to 3 days of waiting time and the reduction in compensation for sick leave are punitive measures as if civil servants were guilty of being ill even though successive governments bear heavy responsibility for the deterioration of their working conditions and, ultimately, their health. This reduction in salary will penalize agents, particularly those in precarious situations, but also more so women.
Waiting days, reduction in sick leave compensation, abolition of GIPA, freezing of the value of the index point and absence of salary measure for agents in the 2025 budget: the government stigmatizes our colleagues, and in the same time organizes the deterioration of our purchasing power.
This lack of upgrading and even consideration can only aggravate the recruitment crisis which persists in National Education and weakens the public education service. Minister Anne Genetet assumes a strengthening of the Pact, even though it is in no way an upgrading measure. On the contrary, it contributes to the increase in workload and working time. Because, with all due respect to a former President of the Republic, teachers work more than 40 hours a week, on weekends and during holidays. school holidays. They, along with other National Education staff, keep a public school that is already exhausted due to budget cuts and policies implemented at arm's length. The 4,000 job cuts announced will further degrade the daily lives of our colleagues in schools, colleges and high schools. Public schools are at a tipping point, these measures will push them into the void.
Our organizations FSU, UNSA Éducation, CFDT EFRP, CGT Educ'action, SNALC, SUD Éducation denounce this brutal policy which sabotages public services. We also denounce the proliferation of contemptuous remarks against National Education personnel who have not engaged in these professions to be punching bags and fuel the political-media buzz.
We are calling on staff to go on strike on Thursday December 5 for a first day of mobilization. We demand the withdrawal of the Kasbarian measures, the elimination of the waiting day, the reestablishment of the GIPA, a revaluation of the index point and the elimination of the Pact. All staff must be upgraded, without compensation and a real status must be created for AESH. The job cuts must be canceled, positions must be created to reduce class numbers and to improve the working conditions of all staff.
From now on, we are calling on colleagues to come together to get information, prepare for the strike and all other modalities of action to say stop, and discuss the consequences. The participation of each colleague will be decisive: it is through massive mobilization from December 5 that we will be able to influence, sustain actions… and win!
The inter-union will meet following December 5 to discuss the follow-up to the mobilization.
Paris, Thursday November 18, 2024
