We bring together our member organisations to discuss and share experiences, good practices and ideas on responding to collective challenges. Together we are building the education unions of the future: mass participation organisations that reflect the diverse interests and identities of their members and offer educators a multitude of ways to engage and contribute.
The newly adopted strategic plan of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is good news for teachers. Meeting in Berlin on 6-8 June, the GPE Board of Directors - on which EI represents the teaching profession - approved the vision and mission that will guide the actions of the partnership...
Global Partnership for Education increases support for teachers
President, distinguished delegates,
Fred van Leeuwen: Address to the Plenary of the 101st International Labour Conference
Fred van Leeuwen asked the ILO to stick to its core mandate of defending workers rights.
EI’s General Secretary challenges the 101st International Labour Organisation
Fred van Leeuwen asked the ILO to stick to its core mandate of defending workers rights.
EI’s General Secretary challenges the 101st International Labour Organisation
Fred van Leeuwen asked the ILO to stick to its core mandate of defending workers rights.
EI’s General Secretary challenges the 101st International Labour Organisation
General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen congratulated Guy Ryder on his election to a five-year term at the helm of the UN tripartite labour organisation.
EI welcomes the election of Guy Ryder as Director-General of the ILO
The President of the Regional Committee in Latin America, Hugo Yasky, has called for a joint trade union strategy to promote quality public education within the region. At the opening of the Committee’s annual meeting on 7 May, Yasky emphasised education unions’ crucial role in “defending the fundamental right to...
Latin America: call for joint strategies for quality education
“We want to see the teachers’ union blossom,” Vice President of Taiwan, Mr. Vincent C. Siew, told an EI delegation - headed by General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen and Chief Regional Coordinator Aloysius Mathews - visiting Taiwan this week.
Taiwan: moving ahead on teachers' rights
It is more than five years since the financial crisis hit, followed rapidly by a larger economic crisis. This economic earthquake exposed the dangers of financialisation; of having the real economy subservient to finance; and of two decades of growing inequality.
Global Unions: Governments must act for a sustainable and equitable recovery