Teachers, school and university students and researchers are striking across France on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, in a fresh day of action over pay, staffing and education funding. Demonstrations are planned in Paris and in towns and cities across the country, five days after a nationwide strike on 5 November.

The call was taken up on Saturday, 7 November, by Snes-FSU, the leading union for middle and high school teachers. Fifteen organisations have signed the joint statement behind the day of action. On the youth side they include the Union syndicale lyceenne, Union etudiante, UNEF, FAGE, FSE and Solidaires etudiant-e-s. On the staff side they include the FSU, FERC-CGT, FO, SUD education and Sup'Recherche-UNSA.

Those called to walk out include teachers from pre-school through to university, student support staff, AESH support staff for students with disabilities, university employees and researchers. High school and university students have been invited to join the marches and, in some cases, to block access to their schools.

Paris march route and banned routes

In Paris, the police prefecture has authorised a single march, from the Pantheon in the 5th arrondissement to Place d'Italie in the 13th arrondissement, setting off at 2pm. The route runs via Boulevard Saint-Michel, Boulevard de Port-Royal and Avenue des Gobelins, with gathering from 12.30pm.

Two other marches that had been declared in Paris, between Place de la Bastille and the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital, have been banned. The prefecture is instead authorising a stationary gathering from 2pm to 6pm at 83 boulevard de l'Hopital, near Saint-Marcel metro station.

What the unions are demanding

For schools, the signatories are calling for the public-sector pay index to be unfrozen and for more teachers, senior education advisers, support staff for students with disabilities, nurses and psychologists to be hired, as well as a building renovation plan.

For universities, they are calling for funding for the 150,000 places they say are lacking, the creation of 15,000 permanent positions, and an end to the barriers they attribute to Parcoursup and Mon Master, the systems used to allocate higher-education places. The research sector is calling for the planned job cuts in the 2027 budget to be scrapped.

The national high school and student coordinating committees, which met at the weekend, say young people will not give up until Parcoursup is scrapped and 20 billion euros is put on the table for schools and universities.

Why Tuesday, and what the government has offered

The timing is linked to talks at Matignon. On Monday, 9 November, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu brought together unions and employers at 9.30am for a social conference on wages and purchasing power, and then met representatives of high school and university students from 3.30pm to 5pm.

The unions are particularly concerned that the public sector will be left out of pay talks. Public-sector unions are instead scheduled to meet government representatives on Friday, 13 November. The unions are due to meet on Tuesday evening to take stock and decide what to do next, in coordination with the cross-industry union coalition.

The government has already taken action. At the end of October, it promised a two-phase reform of Parcoursup, a 5 billion euro plan for high schools and universities, and smaller classes. The organisations behind Tuesday's action say this is not enough, and are particularly disappointed by the lack of concrete measures for universities.

What happened on 5 November

The momentum comes from the strike on 5 November. That day, Snes-FSU said 52 percent of staff at middle and high schools were on strike, with nearly 1,000 high schools blocked or closed. The authorities counted nearly 600,000 demonstrators across France, while the CGT put the figure at 1.6 million.

Schools and transport on Tuesday

In pre-schools and elementary schools, teachers must declare their intention to strike at least 48 hours in advance. If fewer than a quarter of teachers at a school are on strike, the school remains open and pupils from affected classes are placed in other classes. If at least a quarter are on strike, the municipality must organise a minimum childcare service, with children supervised but no lessons.

At middle and high schools there is no minimum service, so classes may be cancelled and further blockades outside some schools cannot be ruled out. At universities, lecture halls may also remain empty.

No strike has been called at the RATP or SNCF for Tuesday. However, metro stations along the march route may be closed at the prefecture's request, including Luxembourg and Port-Royal on RER B, Les Gobelins on line 7, Place d'Italie on lines 5, 6 and 7, and Saint-Marcel on line 5.