LIVE - Social anger: after Thursday's strong mobilization, new actions expected from Saturday

In a climate still under tension in high schools, the main union of school heads, SNPDEN-Unsa, is concerned to see an unusual number of principals considering leaving their positions or requesting a transfer. Its secretary general, Bruno Bobkiewicz, spoke of “around fifty colleagues” in this situation, speaking to RTL on Thursday, November 5. Although this figure is only an estimate established by the union based on interviews carried out with school heads, it calls out to Olivier Beaufrere, principal and national education and pedagogical secretary of the organization. “We’ve never seen this. Until now, principals remained in post when they were nearing the end of their careers. Today, some are ready to become principals of colleges again (where the students do not hold a blockade, Editor's note),” he notes sadly.

This first evaluation of SNPDEN-Unsa comes in the middle of “movement operations for the next school year”. Every year, National Education management personnel must submit their transfer requests on a platform. This year, the deadline is November 8. After three years in the same position, they can request a new assignment in their academy or elsewhere in France. The process becomes mandatory after nine years of practice in the same establishment, unless exempted. A principal can thus ask to take charge of another high school, but also of a middle school, and obtaining a position depends in particular on the places available, the profile of the candidates and the needs of the service.

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Sébastien Lecornu will convene a “social conference” with union and employer organizations on Monday in Matignon, his services announced Thursday at the end of a day of demonstrations and strikes on wages and purchasing power at the call of the unions.

This conference aims to “provide answers to questions of purchasing power and wages”, specifies Matignon in a press release.

In the meantime, Mr. Lecornu asked the Minister of Labor Jean-Pierre Farandou "to finalize by Sunday the consultations he has been carrying out for several days" on these subjects, while the Minister of Action and Public Accounts David Amiel "continues his discussions with representatives of civil service agents", according to the same source.

CFDT and CGT officials again called on Thursday for a substantial increase in the minimum wage and, beyond that, for increases in wages overall.

Some 575,000 people, including 65,000 in Paris, demonstrated Thursday in France in 193 processions during the national day of action for wages and purchasing power at the call of the inter-union, announced the Ministry of the Interior.

“The national report at 6 p.m. shows 448 arrests”, “53 members of the police injured”, “86 interventions for fires”, added the ministry, specifying that the report remained “provisional at this stage” and would be “consolidated in the coming hours”.