And here we go again: after a first strike in October led by the Unsa union, the after-school leaders plan to go on strike again next week, that of November 13. “It can’t go on any longer,” states a press release from the SUPAP-FSU and CFDT unions, which are demanding “massive additional recruitment of permanent staff,” “contractualization of temporary workers,” “meeting times,” “dedicated and trained staff.” for the personal hygiene of children in kindergarten” or even an increase in remuneration.
Demands partly supported by the Changer Paris group (right) and the communists in the Paris Council. The first demand that we increase the number of positions in competitive examinations, the second that we enforce the supervision rate, which can go up to one adult for 25 children in nursery school, instead of one for 14, according to the right.
“Glatant inequality”
The communists also want a bonus to be granted. “Today, we lack facilitators due to a problem of attractiveness,” declared Thursday Raphaëlle Primet, co-president of the group, during a press conference dedicated to the next Paris Council, which will take place from 14 to November 17. The wish of the communist group also underlines that only 45% of animators are trained in certificates intended for the occasional practice of animation, and asks to enforce the rate of 80% of personnel trained via the certificate of aptitude for functions. facilitator (Bafa).
The right has submitted three wishes, one of which asks to finance the first theoretical training course of Bafa “in exchange for a five-year commitment as a facilitator for the City of Paris” and wants to grant the facilitators and facilitators “Rev” – the City’s Educational Managers, who are responsible for organizing extracurricular time in schools – located in the districts in difficulty of the premiums, “in order to maintain particular attention to the students most in difficulty”. “There is a blatant inequality since the City of Paris pays the Rep and Rep + bonus to teachers and not to facilitators,” comments Axel, Rev in Paris.
Group activities over 3 hours?
Another wish from the right calls for an assessment of the reform of school schedules of 2013 and to group these activities over a period of 3 consecutive hours, which would allow, according to Axel, to keep the idea of the five mornings, more favorable for the attention of the child according to chronobiology, while allowing the facilitators to travel for 3 hours and not 1h30 of work. “Instead of doing 1h30 on Tuesday and 1h30 on Friday, we could do quality workshops on Friday over 3 hours; we are too fast in 1h30, with recess, we barely have 50 minutes,” comments Axel. This would also allow families who want to go for the weekend to leave earlier on Friday, from 11:30 a.m. This is what the town of Courbevoie did:
“The problem with this proposal is that we do not know if the agents would be satisfied with it, there would need to be broad consultation of staff,” says Nicolas Léger, co-secretary general of SUPAP-FSU.
“Several hundred services closed”
The last strike did not have a very strong response according to several consistent sources, only around twenty schools declared themselves on strike out of around 631 establishments, mainly in the 9th and 14th arrondissements. But this time, the unions expect a greater mobilization. “We should have several hundred after-school services closed during the week,” comments Nicolas Léger.
Note that the mobilization also concerns the Asem (Specialized Nursery School Agent), who are responsible for welcoming children to school and facilitating their activities throughout the day. “We are asking for one Asem per class in all nursery schools, and a bonus equivalent to that of animators for those who work on extracurricular activity times,” comments the SUPAP-FSU co-secretary general, who believes that this body of profession “suffers at least as much as the animators”.
Contacted by 20 minutes On Thursday, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of Education, Patrick Bloche, had not yet responded to our requests at the time of publication of the article. A rally is planned for Tuesday in front of the town hall at 2:30 p.m. and a general meeting of staff will decide on Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Labor Exchange whether to continue or stop the movement, depending on the city’s announcements.