National Education and more broadly the Civil Service will demonstrate on December 5, 2024 to express their demands in the face of the savings in administration planned by the Barnier government.
After announcements of savings in the administration, an agreement was reached to organize a mobilization and oppose the measures desired by the government and Minister Guillaume Kasbarian. Several organizations (CGT, CFDT, UNSA, FSU, Solidaires, CFE-CGC and FA-FP) have called for a national day of “action” and “strike” on December 5, 2024. An action which promises to be massively followed in the Civil Service, particularly in National Education. Several establishments have already announced, this Thursday, a closure next week due to the social movement.
The demands of National Education
In question? First of all, the extension of the waiting period for the civil service to three days, compared to one currently. This measure constitutes the main axis of protest in the Civil Service. “The change from 1 to 3 days of waiting time and the reduction in compensation for sick leave are punitive measures as if civil servants were guilty of being ill even though successive governments bear heavy responsibility for the deterioration of their working conditions and, ultimately, their health”, specifies a press release ofFSU, UNSA Education, CFDT EFRP, CGT Educ’action, SNALC, SUD Education, dated November 18. According to them, the reduction in salary will lead to a precariousness of agents, particularly among the poorest and women.
Then, the strike will be an opportunity to demand the abandonment of the reduction from 100% to 90% of sick leave compensation for civil servants. Also, “the 4,000 job cuts announced will further degrade the daily lives of our colleagues in schools, colleges and high schools. Public schools are at a tipping point, these measures will push them into the void”, criticizes the press release. .
Civil service: “all staff must be upgraded”
The trade union organizations demand purely and simply the “withdrawal of the Kasbarian measures, the reestablishment of the GIPA, a revaluation of the index point and the elimination of the Pact. All staff must be revalued, without compensation and a real status must be created for AESH The job cuts must be canceled, positions must be created to reduce class numbers and to improve the working conditions of all staff,” we can read. As a reminder, the 2025 budget proposed by Prime Minister Michel Barnier provides for savings of 1.2 billion euros for the Civil Service.