Public and private education unions organised a nationwide strike on Tuesday 27 September, to protest job cuts and what the unions involved call the degradation of education. After a total of 50,000 education posts have been cut since 2007, 16,000 posts will likely be cut in the school year 2011-2012, and another 14,000 in 2012. According to the Ministry for the Interior, 110,000 teachers went on strike, but a first estimate of the FSU and UNSA-Education unions came at 165,000, of which 45,000 on strike in Paris, or about half of the potential strikers. The unions point at the remarkable support of pupils and parents for the strike.
French: http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/09/26/mardi-une-greve ...
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