Conversations sur la formation et la précarité professionnelles au Conservatoire populaire

Abstract

The People’s Conservatory is a series of public debates that was held on March 3rd, 4th and 5th, 2020 at the initiative of a group of people mobilised against the university reforms currently underway, including administrative staff and various personnel of the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, as well as teaching-research staff from the establishment. The event, although not strictly speaking organised by the historic CNAM unions, nevertheless bears the mark of their mobilisation. Certain union participants, in particular from the French General Confederation of Labour (CGT) and Sud-Éducation, were active not only in the organisation and the roundtable discussions but also in public. However, its relatively original character reveals above all that the organisation is widely supported and acclaimed by teaching-research staff who are close to the movement of “Facs et labos en lutte” (Faculties and Laboratories in Struggle), which mobilised in 2020 against the law on multi-year research programming promoted by the Philippe government under President Macron. This series of discussions, of which the following text publishes lengthy extracts, tackle the discrepancies between training policies and the realities of workers’ conditions (and primarily in the public sector), themes that are at the heart of the establishment.

Keywords

• National Conservatory of arts and crafts
• unions
• insecurity
• public research and training agents
• vocational training