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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 October 2013 European educators unite for quality education
EI's European region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), held a special meeting on 23 October in Brussels. Entitled "What is needed to improve the quality of education in Europe?", it brought together trade unionists from across Europe to reflect on challenges ahead and discuss measures to improve...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2013 3263rd Council meeting, Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs
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Union growth 28 October 2013 South Korea: educators demand respect for workers’ rights
On 24 October, the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU) was officially deprived of its legal status by the South Korean Govenment. The union had been given a one-month ultimatum to revise its by-laws.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2013 Miscellaneous news
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2013 High-level social partners agreement with the Commission on education and training
During the recent years, ETUCE has issued a number of positions and had several meetings with the Directorate-General of Education and Culture of the European Commission, wherein we urged the European Commission to invite the social partners to more dialogue on policy initiatives of the European Commission on education and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2013 Spain: 83% of education employees take part in general strike
The Spanish unions CCOO, FETE-UGT and STES-I stated that the general strike of the education employees, which took place on 24 October 2013 across Spain and was called for by the National Platform for Public School, was very successful.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2013 EU Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review – September 2013
There are signs of fragile economic recovery, but economic growth is unlikely to be sustained unless it is inclusive and job rich, especially while labour market and social conditions remain extremely challenging and divergence between countries is growing
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 October 2013 Lebanon: Providing education to refugee children
“Lebanese educators are doing a splendid job of accommodating the tens of thousands Syrian refugee children who have entered their class rooms in the past two years.” EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, conveyed this message to the Education Minister of Lebanon, Mr. Hassan Diab, and the leaders of the...
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Equity and inclusion 25 October 2013 European trade unionists want equality added to quality in education
The Standing Committee for Equality of EI’s European region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), has met in Brussels, Belgium. From 21-22 October, education unionists highlighted the need for and activities organised to achieve equality in education.
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Union growth 25 October 2013 Spain: Widespread support for education strike
Spain’s education unions witnessed a successful general education strike on 24 October – the unions involved were EI’s affiliates, CCOO, FETE-UGT and STEs.
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Trade union rights are human rights 24 October 2013 Korea: KTU deprived of legal status
On 24 October, one of EI’s affiliates, the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU), was officially deprived of legal status by the Park Geun-hye administration. KTU had been given a one-month ultimatum to revise the provision in its by-laws allowing union membership to dismissed and retired teachers. In a...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 October 2013 Australia: Quality education campaign launched
The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU), one of EI’s national affiliates, has launched its Quality Education campaign at the National Carillon in Canberra in support of the EI Unite for Quality Education initiative and World Teachers’ Day.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 October 2013 Corporate funding, a threat to academic independence
Corporate funding of universities could lead to corruption in the higher education sector. That’s according to an article by EI senior advisor David Robinson in a report launched on 1 October by Transparency International. The non-government organisation’s Global Corruption Report: Education is a comprehensive guide to corruption risks in education...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 October 2013 UK: Strike action over Government refusal to negotiate
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) have gone on strike as part of their continuous action to seek decent living and working conditions for teachers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2013 Spain: Strike called to confront savage cuts
The Plataforma Estatal por la Escuela Pública (State Platform for Public Education), an umbrella group of trade unions and civil society organisations, has called a general education strike, for every level, on 24 October. An increase in pupil-teacher ratios, in contact hours, job losses, and budget cuts in areas as...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 October 2013 Finland: Union joins EI’s Unite4Ed campaign
Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö(OAJ), one of EI’s national affiliates in Finland, has unveiled its plan to join in EI’s ‘Unite for Quality Education’ (Unite4ed) initiative.
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Equity and inclusion 15 October 2013 USA: Union leaders arrested while defending immigrant rights
EI’s national affiliates, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), have condemned trade union leaders’ arrests during marches to demand a vote on comprehensive immigration reform in their country.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 October 2013 ETUCE Conference on Solidarity for Healthy and Safe Workplaces in the Crisis
At the closing conference of the ETUCE Project “Teacher Trade Unions in Solidarity for Healthy and Safe Workplaces in the Economic Crisis” in Madrid on 10-11 October 2013, more than 50 representatives from European teacher trade unions discussed policy recommendations on how to promote healthy and safe working conditions in...
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