Education: three unions call for a new strike on Tuesday

Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: ALAIN PITTON / NURPHOTO / NURPHOTO VIA AFP 8:35 p.m., February 2, 2024

The Snes-FSU, CGT and SUD unions called for a new strike in National Education on Tuesday to defend salaries and oppose educational policy at the college, after a strike which mobilized one in five teachers on Thursday. The Snes-FSU (main union in middle and high schools) but also the CGT Educ'action and Sud Éducation, meeting as an inter-union on Friday, "called on staff to make the week of February 5 a week of action in the 'Education and to strike on Tuesday', it is written in a press release from the CGT Educ'action.

The unions are calling for mobilization around the question of salaries, but also the application of the "knowledge shock" measures, launched by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to raise the level of students, and which must come into force at the next school year. It is particularly the level groups, in French and mathematics, for 6th and 5th grade students which irritate the unions. 

“National Education is despised by those in power”

After Thursday's "successful" strike, the Snes-FSU "calls for continued and amplified action for our salaries and against the shock of knowledge" with a new strike on Tuesday, in a message on X (formerly Twitter). In its press release, the CGT Educ'action "also deplores the outdated vision of the school, illustrated by the desire to put in place the single outfit and the generalization of the SNU". Furthermore, "Amélie Oudéa-Castera's comments, denigrating public schools and their staff, show the extent to which National Education is despised by those in power", according to this union.

To win, let's continue the action!

Following the successful #February1strike, the @SNESFSU calls for continued and amplified action for our salaries and against the "shock of knowledge": strike from Tuesday 6/02 and week of action #February6Strike#EducationEnolèrehttps://t. co/JqxUQJdxnGpic.twitter.com/yE519kkVMU

— SNES-FSU (@SNESFSU) February 2, 2024

Thursday, several thousand teachers and education staff demonstrated in Paris and in major cities in France to raise awareness about their working conditions, their salaries, but also to defend public schools after the controversial declarations of their minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who had mentioned the “packages of hours not seriously replaced” in the public.