Education: Call for strike on November 10 for wages, jobs and access to education

A new day of mobilization is announced in National Education, Higher Education and Research Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The call brings together organisations of staff, students and high school students. Relayed by the Latest News from Alsace, East Republican and TF1 Info, it plans strikes, demonstrations and rallies. The inter-federal communiqué issued by the CGT Educatorship specifies the demands and provides for a meeting on Tuesday evening to discuss the follow-up. [S1] [S3] [S4] [S5]

Claims about income and educational conditions

In particular, the organisations request the thawing of the index point, which is involved in the remuneration of civil servants, job creation, a plan for the tenure of non-occupational staff and investments in school and university buildings. They also call for a national pay scale for education assistants and a category B staff for accompanying students with disabilities. These are union demands, not measures announced by the government. [S5]

In the superior, the appeal focuses on the possibility of studying in the field of his choice. The signatories are seeking funding for 150,000 places they believe are missing and the creation of 15,000 positions. They challenge the barriers to access to the studies they assign to Parcoursup and My Master. These figures express their needs assessment: the document does not provide independent expertise to confirm it. [S5]

A new deadline, distinct from Saturday of events

Tuesday's appeal is part of the same sequence of protests against expensive life as the demonstrations on Saturday, November 7, but the two meetings are not confused. The directs of the three regional daily newspapers and TF1 Info describe this Saturday as a fourth weekend of mobilization, after the interprofessional day of Thursday, November 5. The regional daily newspapers publish a widely shared account, signed by their editors with the AFP: their convergence does not therefore constitute as many independent surveys. [S1] [S2] [S3] [S4]

By 5 November, the regional daily newspapers reported 575,000 demonstrators, compared with 1.6 million according to the CGT. This difference must remain attributed to the counting sources. It does not allow for Tuesday's participation, nor does it allow the union's assessment that the movement would have taken back the advantage over the government. The latter relates to their reading of the balance of power. [S1] [S2] [S3] [S5]

A social conference bringing together trade unions and employers is announced on Monday, 9 November. The call for education is concerned that the public service may remain outside of wage discussions, while presenting this exclusion itself as a hypothesis to be confirmed. It would therefore be premature to take it for granted. [S1] [S3] [S5]

Freedom to demonstrate and security: opposing positions

For Saturday, Laurent Nuñez justifies the renewal of a scheme of 70,000 police officers and gendarmes due to the risks of violence and calls for gatherings without a structured organiser. According to the media consulted, the authorized Parisian route links République to Nation, while the coordination of yellow vests maintains a prohibited rally at Concorde. These restrictions concern 7 November; they do not describe the Tuesday terms. [S1] [S2] [S4]

For their part, education organizations denounce police interventions against high school students and campus closures, which, according to them, prevent assembly and general assemblies. The Minister said he wanted to guarantee peaceful demonstrations while preventing violence. The documents consulted set out these opposing positions, but do not allow the legality or proportionality of each intervention and of each closure to be determined. [S4] [S5]

Uncertain consequences for families

The national call does not give a forecast rate of strikers or a list of institutions involved in interruptions of courses. It therefore does not allow to announce a general closure of high schools or universities. For students, students and families, the uncertainty still concerns the courses actually maintained and the local organization. Organizations report that they have given notice for the coming weeks, but refer decisions on the continuation of the movement to their discussions from November 10 to the evening. [S5]