Several unions of CNRS researchers and employees demanded a rally in front of their regional management in Toulouse on Monday, January 27th. The aim was to protest the reform of “Schlüssellabors” that would promote the financing of certain laboratories compared to others.
They were 250 on Monday, January 27th, Avenue Edouard Belin in Toulouse to protest against the reform of the “key laboratories”. The intersyndicals of researchers and employees of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) called for the mobilization against the project, which is led by CEO by CNRS, Antoine Petit, who “wants to concentrate more funds on 25 % of the research units, the most important laboratories” Who would have this label for the next five years “. According to the expense of them, 75 % of the laboratories who employ more than half of the staff. This announcement is made in a tense context: the senators have canceled more than one billion euros in credits , and the financing calculation of 2,025 requires 100 million savings from the CNRS.
“Management decisions are composed in crisis”
“Everyone projects on the specified laboratories lists that are selected as” key laboratories “,” explains a researcher who is present in the demonstration. Small groups agglutine near the CNRS. The same questions burn the lips and captivate the spirits: Which laboratories are selected and how are they selected?
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“These laboratories are one -sidedly selected by management without anyone really knowing why or how,” says another person in the same group. Follow a generalized dissatisfaction: a Movement of distrust After Antoine Petit’s resignation, almost 9,000 signatures have already collected. The announcement of this reform was made on December 12th and this “decision was made unilaterally and without consultation, which is a double cause of trouble,” said Bruno Guibert de la Sntrs-CGT 31 in his fan speech before people are present. “It is a decision that is taken over by the management and not just a problem of financing research. It is a defect organized by the government that led to this decision”.
“So how can we sacrifice important structures in management and support of the coming world? Whether socio -economically or climatic, the challenges that our societies have mutually have to face in view of a very recommended audience.” There is no real budget crisis in France, but that for Contribution decisions imposed on us and the crisis that are composed in the crisis, “said the trade unionist, who ends his comments by determining the word” resistance “under the repeated applause of the crisis.” We want the skin of the CNR “, Blows an employee of the center who supported the movement.
“There is a real resentment, a real bitterness that settles”
For Simon Dap de Fo, a researcher on Plasmen, “research is a simple goal of making budget cuts”. “We very often become an adaptation variability, especially since a large part of the research budget is eaten by the research tax credit,” he adds. Another problem that was raised during this mobilization: The way the laboratories for the “Schlüssellabors” project … “are selected about what I think about the reform is very amateur”, explains a demonstrator. The famous lists circulate through word of mouth, but nobody seems to say with strength what exactly the content is. “There are corridors and rumors in circulation,” says Simon Dap. “A full, accumulated and there is the drop of water,” does not hesitate to say the researcher, who assures that “people only talk about it”. Before he does not close without worry: “We are sunk our future”.