REACTION
Édouard Philippe and Justice Ministers Nicole Belloubet, Education Jean-Michel Blanquer and Interior Christophe Castaner were in Seine-Saint-Denis this Thursday, with in their luggage 23 measures to come to the bedside of this adjoining department from Paris, especially towards public services. These are affected by a flagship announcement: a bonus of 10,000 euros for civil servants who work at least five years in the territory.
Some of these measures have been well received by the elected officials of this historical bastion of the left. "All that makes the officials are loyal, want to come and stay in Seine-Saint-Denis is necessarily good news," says the micro Europe 1 Olivier Klein, socialist mayor of Clichy-Sous-Bois . "We need to have the best of the officials on our territory and the turnover was an additional difficulty." But for the city, leaving the checkbook will not be enough to restore an attractive image of the 93 in these agents. "I do not believe that only financial measures are sufficient, it is also the quality of working conditions that needs to be improved".
The question of school principals
Developing the attractiveness of the 93 by fighting against ghettoisation is also a priority for him, in order to launch a positive dynamic among the inhabitants: "It is a department which often welcomes the most fragile ones.When people are better, they leave it. These measures must make the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis want to stay there ". Olivier Klein discusses several avenues of work to improve the image of the territory: the school, the return of subsidized jobs, the quality of housing and health, sectors precisely concerned by some of the 23 measures: "How do we fight? against medical deserts, to make hospitals more welcoming, to spend less time on emergencies, the government is proposing things. "
The mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois, however, notes some forgotten who would, they too, deserved the attention of the government according to him, starting with the principals of schools. "We have talked a lot about the difficulties faced by school directors in our cities, and I have not seen, at this stage, any measures that will improve their working conditions on a daily basis", deplores the elected representative, referring to suicide of a director in Pantin, on September 21st, at her place of work. She denounced in a letter the harshness of her working conditions. Olivier Klein recommends recruiting administrative assistants from school leaders: "This is something we really need to make parents feel better in schools, and that principals and teachers feel better."