Teachers and other National Education staff, exasperated by the waltz of health protocols linked to Covid-19, went on massive strike on Thursday January 13.

Nearly 78,000 people (77,500) demonstrated in France, including 8,200 in Paris, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

At the end of this day of strike, the teacher unions were received by Prime Minister Jean Castex.

Update on mobilization and government announcements with images of rallies in France.


Directed by:

Olivier JUSZCZAK

  • Teachers and other National Education staff, exasperated by the waltz of health protocols linked to Covid-19, went on massive strike on Thursday.

    They demonstrated across France to demand additional resources from the government.

  • At the end of this day of strike, the teacher unions were received by Prime Minister Jean Castex.

  • At the end of the mobilization, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, epicenter of the critics, announced the availability on request of "5 million FFP2 masks" for kindergarten teachers and the distribution of masks. surgical from the beginning of next week for all National Education staff.

  • He also promised "several thousand" replacements "to deal with the crisis", with the recruitment of "3,300 more contract workers" and the use of additional lists, that is to say candidates who had the competitions but have not been recruited, a long-standing demand of the unions.

  • Nearly 78,000 people (77,500) demonstrated in France on Thursday, including 8,200 in Paris, according to the Ministry of the Interior, at the call of all the national education unions which denounced "an indescribable mess" due to health protocols.

  • Nearly 38.5% of teachers went on strike in nursery and elementary schools, according to the Ministry of the Interior, and 75% according to the SNUipp-FSU, which announced one out of two schools closed and evoked "a mobilization historical”.

  • In colleges and high schools, 23.7% of teachers were mobilized, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

    The Snes-FSU advanced the figure of 62% of strikers.

  • In Bordeaux, where some 3,000 people demonstrated according to the organizers, 1,900 according to the prefecture, demonstrators hung on the grids of the rectorate the fabric masks provided by the National Education.

    They wrote on them messages like “Blanquer resignation”.

  • In Lyon, the demonstration brought together more than 3,000 demonstrators according to the unions, 2,200 according to the police.

  • In Paris, teachers, but also nurses, school life staff or, more rarely, inspectors and heads of establishments, paraded in the procession, in which the left-wing presidential candidates had also taken part.

  • The Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, present at the demonstration, described Thursday the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer as a “useful cretin”.

  • For Christiane Taubira, who must officially declare herself a candidate for the Elysée Palace on Saturday, "the way in which the Ministry of National Education, two years after the pandemic, treats the teaching staff is just unacceptable".

  • The socialist Anne Hidalgo was, meanwhile, freshly welcomed by the teachers in the procession.

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