“Emmanuel Macron does not keep the promises he made during the election campaign” for the SNES-FSU

“It’s a missed meeting of Emmanuel Macron with the world of national education”, estimated Thursday, April 20 on franceinfo Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of the SNES-FSU union after Emmanuel Macron’s announcements on teachers’ salaries. The head of state announced a salary increase “between 100 and 230 euros net more per month” for all, during a trip to a college in the Hérault dedicated to school.

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For Sophie Vénétitay, this is not enough: “Emmanuel Macron does not keep the promises he made during the electoral campaign”. She recalls that he “had promised 10% increase for all teachers without compensation”. Gold, “there he announces figures of 100 to 230 euros per month, which corresponds to 1.9 billion euros”. According to his calculations, “to increase all teachers by 10% without a new mission, it was necessary to put 3.6 billion on the table”. For the Secretary General, these announcements are “very far from the promises” and don’t catch up “salary dropout” : “It does not take the measure of the serious recruitment crisis that we are experiencing”.

She then returns to “the pact”, announced by the President. These “missions that the teachers will undertake to do”and which are, according to it, “a return to work more to perhaps earn more”. She claims that this announcement is not “not well accepted at all in terms of what it means. It’s not upgrading. When you pay someone for extra tasks, it’s just called paying them for what they do. he does, it is the principle of salaried work”.

Too much workload

This pact is complicated to put in place for teachers, according to her, given their current workload: “Today, a teacher works 43 hours a week. We do not see where we will be able to fit these new tasks. This is not what we expect”. Regarding replacements and Emmanuel Macron’s desire that teachers who are absent for short periods be more easily and systematically replaced, “it presupposes human resources, which once again Emmanuel Macron does not put on the table”.

Finally, Sophie Vénétitay recalls that “in the 80s, a beginner teacher earned 2.2 times the minimum wage” but that today “He earns 1.2 times the minimum wage. To return to this level of the early 80s, it would have been necessary to increase the salary by 1,000 euros per month. We are far from it”she concludes.