Strike in the public service: update on the mobilization expected Tuesday March 19 in Gard

Une nouvelle journée de mobilisation, cette fois des fonctionnaires, pour des revendications salariales. Archive M. A.

L'intersyndicale appelle à la grève ce mardi 19 mars pour obtenir une revalorisation salariale. Une manifestation départementale partira de la Maison Carrée à 14 h 30.

The inter-union (CGT, CFDT, CFE-CGC, FO, FA, FSU, Solidaires and Unsa) calls for mobilization in the public service of Gard, this Tuesday, March 19, to demand a significant increase in salaries and thus cover inflation. Losses of purchasing power which will mobilize numerous civil servants with, probably, a large contingent of teachers.

The latter were very cooled by the publication, Sunday March 17, of the decrees which will put in place at the start of the school year in September 2024 "formed groups according to the needs of the students" in mathematics and French."We are exasperated by these level groups desired by Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Even the headteachers' union evokes the fact that it will not be possible to implement these groups without degrading working conditions", notes Emmanuel Bois, departmental secretary of the FSU in Gard.< /p>

Minimum reception service

The latter does not forget the demands made this Tuesday: "Teachers' workloads are increasing. We are asked to do much more without a salary increase, apart from a bonus of 100 € which was allocated." The FSU indicates that it is still difficult to know what the percentage of strikers will be in the second degree because it there is no declaration of intention, unlike the first degree.

In Nîmes public schools which will have more than 25% of teachers on strike, a minimum reception service will be set up by the City for parents who are not on strike. have no childcare solutions: Berlioz elementary 2, Capouchiné nursery 3, Émile Gauzy mat. 4, Jean Macé elementary 5, La Placette elementary 6 and Prosper Mérimée kindergarten. Two schools will have restrictions for after-school reception and catering: Courbessac elementary 2 and kindergarten. Five schools will not have after-school services and catering services: Eau Bouille nursery 2, Gustave Courbet elementary 3, nursery 4, Jacques Prévert mat. 5, Jean-Jacques Rousseau maternal. 70 schools will operate normally.

The families concerned received messages by SMS from the town hall on Monday evening. Disturbances are also announced in the Delon Soubeyran nurseries as well as the Alisiers.

The strike will affect the areas of health, with a mobilization also of liberal nurses, hospital workers, but also of the territorial civil service.

This Tuesday, at the start of the departmental demonstration in front of the Maison Carrée, the demands will relate to the salary increase, the increase in the index point of civil servants, but also the increase in civil servants' index points. #39;equal pay for men and women