They do not disarm. Several unions have launched a new strike call for Thursday January 20 in schools, colleges and high schools after the major movement last Thursday. “The chaos generated by the management of the health crisis deserves strong responses, beyond the commitments made by the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Education”, they write in a joint press release published on Monday.
The unions FSU, CGT Educ’action, FO and SUD Education, as well as the FCPE, the first organization of parents of pupils, and the high school student movements FIDL, MNL and La Voix lycéenne call for “continue mobilization”, engaging “in a new day of action on January 20, including by strike”. This mobilization “must lead to a massive strike on January 27 as part of the interprofessional appeal” for wages and employment, they added.
Teachers and other National Education staff, exasperated by the waltz of health protocols linked to Covid-19, carried out a major strike last Thursday, after which the government promised them 5 million FFP2 masks. and replacements, including the recruitment of “3,300 more contract workers” and the use of complementary lists (candidates who passed the competition and were not recruited, but were well ranked).
The government also announced that assessments of “mid-CP” would be “postponed to a deadline that remains to be defined”, and that a possible postponement of the baccalaureate specialty tests, scheduled for March, would be studied.
Believing that these advertisements “are not sufficient”, the unions are calling for “immediately postpone the specialty tests”, to “cancel the mid-CP evaluations”, at “create all the positions necessary to ensure replacements, beyond the use of additional lists” and to “provide schools and establishments with sufficient protective equipment, well beyond the volumes announced”.