Unsa

Unsa is a French trade union that, along with FSU, CFDT, CGT, and SUD, is currently organizing a week of actions, including a national strike on March 31st, against government policies leading to teacher job cuts. These unions argue that the government is exploiting a decline in student numbers to make budget cuts instead of reducing class sizes. The strikes are in response to the government's justification of job cuts in education due to demographic shifts, which unions like CGT criticize as a purely accounting-driven argument. The current relevance lies in the widespread mobilization within the education sector to protest these job cuts, with nearly 10% of teachers participating in the strike, and even higher participation among school staff (16.9%).