A week after a very popular strike in education to protest against the management of the Covid-19 crisis in schools, the new call to strike, Thursday January 20, is less followed. The rate of strikers by teachers was 1.15% in the first degree and 2.18% in the second degree, according to figures from the Ministry of National Education, at midday. Despite everything, the exasperation is still there, faced with a weakened minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer. Follow our live.
A rally in the capital. A demonstration is planned in Paris from 2 p.m. For Guislaine David, general secretary of Snuipp-FSU, the first primary school union, “the goal this time was not to call on the teachers to strike because at one week intervals it is complicated. The idea today is to maintain the pressure with local mobilizations, before a new call to the strike on January 27”, she told AFP.
38% strikers last Thursday. A week ago, the rates of strikers were much higher, with more than 38% in the first degree and nearly 24% in the second, according to figures from the Ministry of Education. The movement brought together all the education unions, including several (FSU, CGT Educ’action, FO and SUD Education, as well as the FCPE, the first parents’ organization, and the high school student movements FIDL, MNL and La Voix high school student) had called for “continue mobilization”.
FFP2 masks and replacements. The unions had been received by Prime Minister Jean Castex and the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, who had promised “five million FFP2 masks” for kindergarten teachers, the distribution of surgical masks for others and more replacements for absent teachers. Some announcements “not sufficient” for the unions, who have called for “create all the positions necessary to ensure replacements” and to “provide schools and establishments with sufficient protective equipment, well beyond the volumes announced”.