Within national education, the March 7 strike day is one of the most mobilizing since the movement began. If the number of mobilized teachers has fallen since the first Jan. 19 movement, when nearly 40% of teachers went on strike, on Tuesday it was again more than 30%, according to the Ministry of National Education — 60% according to union figures. Sign that in schools, colleges and high schools, resistance to the reform will not diminish.

If the issue of pensions has always strongly mobilized teachers, there is also the context of the beginning of the year, characterized by mobilizations against job cuts at the beginning of the school year and salary negotiations with the ministry, from which all unions emerged to oppose the government’s plan to offer teachers additional tasks in order to receive a higher salary.

Called “Teacher Pact”this device is never missing from the speeches of the demonstrators and testifies to the many sources of the teachers’ anger. ” So the project is supposed to get us to work more and longer, with less and less good working conditions… It’s just despicable.gets carried away Anne-Laure, 54, school teacher in Paris.

Like all mobilized sectors and professions, the teachers now face the question of the continuation and the renewable strike. The weight of the salary losses and, for high school teachers, the approach of the first Abitur exams in two weeks are weighing on the arbitration proceedings. For now, a new call has been launched for March 9, Youth Mobilization Day, and some have already planned to respond.