Paris (AFP)
The salaries of young researchers will be increased, promised Tuesday evening the Minister of Higher Education and Research Frédérique Vidal, during her wishes organized at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris where demonstrators were waiting for her.
"I will take the measures ensuring that, from 2021, any researcher and any lecturer is now recruited at least 2 times the minimum wage, compared to 1.3 to 1.4 times the minimum wage today. the commitment before you this evening, "announced Ms. Vidal, according to the speech sent to AFP, adding that" 26 million euros "will be devoted" to this upgrading of early career.
Throughout the duration of these wishes, between 150 people, according to the police, and 250 to 300 union sources, gathered outside to denounce in particular "student precariousness", the "law of research programming" but also the pension reform project, according to the president of Unef Mélanie Luce who was present at the wishes of the minister.
In front of the museum, union representatives distributed flyers with the wishes of the inter-union of higher education and research.
"We hope that our struggles will be crowned with success in order to obtain: 1. the withdrawal of the pension reform by points and the maintenance of the calculation of pensions on the basis of the last 6 months; 2. a multiannual programming law for research supporting a real public research service, "they said.
According to Mélanie Luce, "the rally was peaceful, there was no charge at the demonstration, but a protester was hit and injured in the brow bone".
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