"The organizations FSU, Unsa Education, SGEN-CFDT, Snalc and Sud Education left the meeting devoted to the pact today (Monday)," writes the inter-union in a joint press release.

The unions say they demand "an ambitious revaluation without compensation for all staff".

This was the second meeting on the “pact” part, which notably provides for new missions for teachers.

The FO and CGT unions had already left the negotiations in January.

Among the additional tasks envisaged are missions "related to short-term replacements", or others "guiding and supporting students".

Criticized by the unions during the first meeting, the ministry advanced on Monday a modulation of the "pact" with three units of 1,250 euros, up to a "pact" at 3,750 euros gross increase per year.

But it will have to include certain missions such as short-term replacement in the second degree and hours of deepening and support in maths and French for 6th graders in the first degree, as part of the recent college reform. , we say rue de Grenelle.

"Teachers do not want to work more. The hours they currently spend at work are already exploding. We cannot ask them for compensation and especially not within the framework of this gas factory", annoys Guislaine David, secretary general of the Snuipp-FSU, the first primary school union.

"Work more to earn more"

For Catherine Nave-Bekhti, secretary general of Sgen-CFDT, "the proposals on the pact are like on pensions, it induces an increase in work, without taking into account the real work already done and the experience at work".

The consultations on the increases in teacher salaries promised by President Emmanuel Macron resumed in January, after a first phase in the fall.

Two meetings were held in January and February on the "base" (unconditional) part of the increases, in parallel with the meetings on the "pact" part (linked to new missions), the most contested by the unions.

“It is not insignificant that all the unions are leaving this meeting. We have never had any illusions about this + pact + but the additional workload that is proposed is much too heavy, it is not”, affirms Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union.

According to the press release published on Monday, the unions say they have "confirmation that the pact is an instrument which in no way meets the expectations of colleagues and the needs of the school".

No answer is given on the question of wage inequalities between women and men: the pact will even worsen these inequalities, it is unacceptable!”, they lament.

"It's + work more to earn more +, but it risks being done at the expense of working better in schools and degrading the teaching conditions for students", adds Gilles Langlois, national secretary of SE-Unsa.

The conclusion meeting of these consultations on the upgrading of the teaching profession was scheduled for March 13.

This calendar will be shifted, without a specific date at this stage.

The ministry says "not to despair of arriving at improvements", recalling that it wishes "a consultation with the strongest possible adhesion and not a signed agreement".

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