Unsa Éducation has been publishing its annual barometer on the state of mind of the teaching profession for 12 years with nearly 50,000 respondents this year.
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Among the respondents to the Unsa Education barometer: teachers, principals, administrators, nurses and even school doctors.
What does not vary over the years in this barometer is that staff like their job, at more than 90%, regardless of their seniority. On the other hand, working is becoming more and more difficult, says the union. Nearly three-quarters of respondents believe that their working conditions are not satisfactory, which is 14 points more than in 2017.
Two-thirds believe that they feel neither recognition nor respect in their professional practice, a proportion that has increased by 10 points in seven years. For Morgane Verviers, Secretary General of Unsa Education, this deterioration is linked to the arrival in power of Emmanuel Macron: “We have clearly seen since 2017 that there is a disconnect between colleagues and the way they perceive political orientations, she said. Only 7% of respondents say they agree with the political choices that are made in their sector of activity. This is very low, whereas it was higher in 2017 since we were around 24%.
The cause is in particular: the multiple reforms and sometimes contradictory instructions from one year to the next, which lead to fatigue and stress. Professional burnout is even greater among executives, inspectors or management staff according to the barometer. Finally, a third of recently employed staff say that they will not be able to do their job for long, because it is too hard physically or mentally.