The unions are calling on teachers to strike this Thursday, January 13 in nursery, elementary, middle and high schools, in order to denounce an “unmanageable” health protocol.
[Mise à jour du 7 janvier à 14h29]. This Friday, January 7, the SNUipp-FSU, the majority union in nursery and elementary schools, and the SE-Unsa for schools, colleges and high schools call on teachers to strike on January 13 next to denounce the establishment of a school health protocol deemed “unmanageable”. Indeed, the new measures were announced the day before the start of the school year, and three days after the start of the January 3, the health protocol was again modified to cope with the numerous closures of classes and schools. “The Minister does not take the measure of the situation and is pleased to keep the schools open at all costs“believes the SNUipp-FSU. Result: parents, teachers, students and unions get lost, between positive and contact cases, repeated self-tests and class closures. If the government wishes above all keep schools open, unions are calling for more school safety.
“A chaos, an indescribable mess”
“The situation since the start of the January school year has created an indescribable mess and a strong feeling of abandonment and anger among school staff” denounces the union, which therefore calls on “school staff to go on strike on Thursday, January 13, to chaos but also to contempt and lies, to obtain the conditions of a secure school under Omicron “.
► For more safety at school, the unions are calling for “the return to the protective rule ‘one positive case = closure of the class’, the isolation of intra-family contact cases and a policy of systematic weekly preventive saliva tests”. They also ask that Education staff be equipped with surgical masks and FFP2 for those who wish. “Self-tests must be provided to them and classrooms and catering rooms equipped with CO2 sensors” adds Snuipp.
According to the union, “the minister claims to keep the schools open but the government’s political choice is to ensure the reception of students, to allow parents to go to work, at the expense of the health of staff, of that of the children. , their families. In the field, the reality is quite different, directors and teachers can no longer perform their teaching missions properly, “he concludes.