Six trade union organizations are calling in a joint press release for a strike on December 5 for a first day of mobilization. Waiting day, salaries, working conditions… Several demands are on the table.
Anger in National Education and the Civil Service. “The trade union organizations are calling on civil service agents for a day of action, rallies, demonstrations and strikes throughout the country on December 5, 2024,” they indicated in a press release published on the 14th. last November. An agreement was reached to organize a mobilization and oppose the measures desired by the government and Minister Guillaume Kasbarian concerning the extension of the waiting period for the civil service to three days, against one currently, among others.
“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 new 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. The strike will also be an opportunity to demand the abandonment of the reduction from 100% to 90% of sick leave compensation for civil servants. Finally, “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. .
“Everyone on strike on December 5” against the “Kasbarian measures”
Under these conditions, the joint press release from these 6 union organizations calls on staff to go on strike on Thursday, December 5 for a first day of mobilization. They demand purely and simply the “withdrawal of the Kasbarian measures, the elimination of the waiting day, the reestablishment of the GIPA, a revaluation of the index point and the elimination of the Pact. All personnel 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 the number of classes and to improve the working conditions of all staff. Declarations topped with the slogan: “all on strike on December 5”. As a reminder, the 2025 budget proposed by Prime Minister Michel Barnier provides for savings of 1.2 billion euros for the Civil Service.
Only the FO union did not join the call and instead preferred to maintain its proposal to carry out a three-day renewable strike “at the same time as the railway workers’ strike”, i.e. on November 21, the secretary said. general of the UIAFP-FO, Christian Grolier, to the AFP. “We are going to take the minister’s game at its word: three days of waiting time, three days of strike,” the trade unionist already said after a meeting of the organizations with the minister.