Paris school services staff call strike from 11 to 22 May 2026

Seven union organisations (including CGT, CFDT and FSU) have called a rolling strike of Paris city school-affairs staff (mainly extracurricular animateurs) from 11 to 22 May 2026. The mobilisation comes amid a crisis over what the municipality has called "systemic" sexual violence and harassment in Parisian after-school services: 78 agents suspended since early 2026, 31 of them over suspicions of sexual violence. Unions denounce "automatic suspensions" which they say compound chronic understaffing in a precarious sector of around 14,000 animateurs. A central rally is planned on Tuesday 19 May at 14:00 in front of the school-affairs offices (4th arrondissement). Morning and evening childcare may face full closures or reduced capacity school by school.