The vast majority of teachers’ unions are calling for a national strike Thursday, January 13 in schools, colleges and high schools to denounce the disorganization in establishments due to the Covid-19 epidemic. “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”, denounced the first the Snuipp-FSU in a press release. He particularly regrets the fact that “during the health meeting [organisée jeudi], the Minister remained deaf once again to the demands made by the trade unions to secure the school ”.
The Snuipp-FSU “therefore calls on school staff to go on strike on Thursday, January 13, in the face of chaos but also contempt and lies, to obtain the conditions for a secure school under Omicron”. The SE-Unsa also calls on teachers and other stakeholders “to go on strike in schools, colleges and high schools, on January 13, to make the minister understand that the school and its staff can no longer keep up with impractical protocols and changing from day to day, ”the union wrote in a statement.
Review protocols
During the course of Friday, the Snes-FSU, Snalc, CGT Educ’action, Sud Education and FO unions also announced that they were joining this call for a national strike. Concretely, the teachers have until Monday evening to declare themselves strikers.
“It is a question of reviewing the protocol with in particular the return to the protective rule” a positive case = closure of the class “, the isolation of cases of intra-family contact and a policy of systematic weekly preventive saliva tests”, asks the Snuipp- FSU.
On the side of the second degree, the Snes-FSU, the first union in middle and high schools, regrets that “the measures taken [soient] notoriously insufficient ”. “A few days after the start of the school year, middle and high schools are already on the verge of collapse: school lives overwhelmed by the management of absences and contact cases, teachers not replaced, half-board in degraded mode, absence of CO2 sensors, impossibility of properly ventilating the rooms… ”, writes the union in a press release.