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Education: teachers on strike
According to the Ministry of National Education, 20% of teaching staff were on strike on Thursday February 1. There are multiple demands with the question of wages as a priority. – (France 2)
According to the Ministry of National Education, 20% of teaching staff were on strike on Thursday February 1. There are multiple demands with the question of wages as a priority.
Rarely have they paraded so united. All the teaching unions are on strike, together, to express their fed up in the streets of Paris, Thursday February 1st. The same anger and many demands. The first: to push back the government on the level groups in middle school, which are too unequal for many teachers. Salary is at the heart of teachers’ concerns; it should be increased again to upgrade the profession according to several teachers.
Unions are considering other actions
The straw that overflowed the street: the criticisms of the new Minister of National Education on public schools. “The accumulation of reactions from this minister means that I took the RER today to say that it is not possible”, reacted a teacher from Essonne. This day was a first warning, announce the unions. They are thinking about other mobilizations.
