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“Education is not an assembly line, a content delivery platform, or, under any circumstances, a transaction. Our students are not data, and our classrooms are not markets.” This was stated by José Olivera of Uruguay’s National Federation of Secondary Education Teachers (FENAPES) during his intervention before the International Labour Organization...

Today marks a historic victory for workers everywhere—and for education unions across the globe. The confirmation that the right to strike is protected under Convention No. 87 of the ILO affirms what education unions and Education International have long defended: freedom of association is meaningless without the power to act...

Despite strong public opposition and strike action in schools across the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB) called by a united front of education unions, the FWB Parliament, meeting in a plenary session, voted in the early hours of 5 June to approve the government’s planned cuts in education spending.

“Governments are failing to protect working people, and in many cases are actively undermining them,” states the 2026 Global Rights Index . This global report, published annually by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), surveys regions and countries’ workers’ rights violations, has seen a continuing trend of workers’ rights deteriorating...

On the occasion of Kurdish Language Day, the Union of Teachers in North and East Syria (UTNES), an affiliate of Education International (EI), has renewed its call for the official recognition of the Kurdish language in Syria, stressing that mother-tongue education is a fundamental human right and a cornerstone of...

As EI continues to defend and promote democracy, we must not forget that the fight for LGBTI rights is inseparable from the wider struggle for democracy, it cannot function without the full protection of universal human rights for all workers, without exception.