territorial agents specialized in nursery schools on strike

Preparing activities with teachers, accompanying children to the toilet, supervising them during recess or naps, or even teaching them how to eat during meals in the canteen, these are the many missions that punctuate the days of the Specialized Territorial Agents nursery schools (Atsem) and which may not be insured, Monday, September 5. Several unions are calling for a national strike by Atsem, denouncing a lack of recognition and a deterioration in their working conditions.

“The demands would already be to have one Atsem per kindergarten class. The increase in wages, we haven’t had it for ten years”, says Josette Blain, Atsem and national representative of the territorial Atsem Unsa. The Atsem also claim real career development prospects.