For years, the reform-against rain on universities without sporadic resistance manage to
put a halt. In many institutions, precarious organize to obtain concrete victories over
their conditions of work and employment. ---- "It's worse than H?agen-Dazs! ", is a union
recently exclaimed listening to his fellow academics describe how universities treat their
employees precarious. But since the collapse of national strikes of 2007 and 2009 against
the Law on Freedom and Responsibilities of Universities (LRU), students and staff are
struggling to build a response to even save the public service of higher education and
research. LRU, confirmed by Fioraso law passed in 2013, organizes the "autonomy" of
universities. Logic: let universities manage their payroll themselves without giving them
enough; expect their failure to put under the supervision of rectorats imposing job cuts.
An ideal context to pass eventually, increased registration fees.
Yet it would be wrong to believe the resignation es students and staff. Attempts have
succeeded resistance, student mobilizations, coordination and collective forums and
petitions ... without reaching the critical threshold that would have to switch the trend.
Today, students and staff are board-es in a countdown that imposes groupings of
universities by July, to create academic behemoths that will achieve economies of scale,
reduce the supply of training and delete posts. At the University of Saint-Denis, after
trying to resist the first half against a paranoid rules, students and staff oppose their
integration into a community of universities and institutions with Nanterre.
Meanwhile the general strike
Throughout, AG AG, is claimed to repeal legislation LRU and Fioraso, without knowing how
to get rid of. Meanwhile, the solution found by the institutions to reduce the "cost" of
the work is to increase the precarious contracts for disposable employees that are
expected docility. Unless ...
At Tours, precarious teachers decided not to make notes and do not apply for open
positions for next year as the university does not give the most disadvantageous contracts
it wants to impose. In Bordeaux, PhD loaded es course went on strike a week to protest
against the delay in payment. At the University of Toulouse - Le Mirail precarious
teachers are mobilizing for their wages and their monthly payments, and the creation of
sustainable jobs. Even at Sciences-Po Paris, the time teachers have been struggling for
several months and launched a p?tition1. Moreover, precarious unionize. Conducting
struggles foot to foot on the conditions of work and employment, and the winner, you can
restore the confidence of students and staff to undermine the foundations of the
neoliberal university.
Julie (Saint-Denis)
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