Inshallah, we’ll beat Egypt ...we don’t care about the Baccalaureate and the strike!

Algiers- Teachers of Education of various levels have started Sunday 8, November, at the call for the Coordination of Autonomous Trade Unions, a general strike of a week to claim the renewable retroactivity of benefits system since January 2008. The strikers demand the need for revision of wages and demanding a salary of 10 million centimes.

• Ennahar approached some students who have not hesitated to declare about this strike that it is their last concern right now and that their future is bound to the important match between the national team its Egyptian counterpart on November 14 in Cairo. Furthermore, and according to the union, the strike was followed at 80% nationally.
  
  During a tour at some schools in the capital to cover the protests triggered by the unions “Cnapest” and “Enapef” for a period of 8 days, renewable according to its initiators in case there would be no reaction from the public authorities to the demands of workers of education, we met groups of students near their schools after their teachers have asked them to leave classrooms.
  
  "S. K. "Students at the first secondary year, who was waiting for her father to take her home, was very sad." A week of strikes, it's really disappointing and sad because we are going to pay the consequences of this strike. We are in times of exams and it is not good for us. "Her friend added "the director asked us to stay in classroom for the exam because a teacher was not on strike."
  
  Students shouted: Neither strike nor Baccalaureate, everything is postponed for after 14.
  
  
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  At the “First May Square”, and more specifically at “El Idrissi high school”, where the strike is followed at 100%, we met N. Y. who is in first year ‘Literature series.’ This latter tells us that he was not concerned at all by this strike, especially in this sensitive and crucial period, he said, when the time is about nationalism with the match on the 14th between Algeria and Egypt. “The 14th of November is a crucial date for Algeria and for all Algerians. I think only about that game and nothing else. I ask only one thing; that they allow us on the day of 15 to celebrate the victory. Our destiny is linked to November 14”, he added.
  
  The student, T. A, complained to us because the volume school programme for this year, adding that the new programme distribution will not change if things remain the same. The latter appealed the Ministry of Education to streamline the program which is already too heavy, according to him.
  
  In Boumerdes, the strike was followed at 100%, 2% in El Bayedh, over 80% in Bejaia
  
  Ennahar. Rachid Kouadri
  
  
  
  
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