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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 February 2019 USA: Denver teachers fight against austerity
For the first time in 25 years teachers are walking off the job in Denver, Colorado, demanding better working conditions and a fair compensation system.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 January 2019 USA: #RedForEd Day of Action demonstrates unwavering support for public schools
Teachers and educators in the state of California have joined the wave of strikes under the slogan RedForEd demanding a better support for public schools, colleagues and students.
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Union growth 13 November 2018 France: united trade union action protesting cuts in education
For the first time in seven years, the main French education trade unions have put out a united call for a strike on 12 November to voice their deep dissatisfaction with the government’s plans to cut 2,650 teaching positions and 400 education support personnel positions in secondary schools by September...
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Union growth 8 November 2018 Power of Advocacy and Partnership, by Princess R. Moss
Princess R. Moss
As a teacher and education advocate here in the United States, I am in a position to see the inter-connections of all that is good and all that is troubling about our country. I see the hope, happiness, and diversity our children have. I also see the chaos and hate...
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Union growth 25 October 2018 DRC: United trade union front calls strike in education
The five most representative education unions in the Democratic Republic of Congo have put out a joint appeal for strike action to take place between November 5 and November 12, with clear support from educators, to express the high level of dissatisfaction of the county’s teachers.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 October 2018 Unions act to secure tax justice to secure workers’ rights
Addressing tax avoidance by multinational companies was the focus of trade unions from all over the world at a recent seminar.
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 August 2018 Kenya: delocalisation policy deepens teacher shortage
The Kenya National Union of Teachers has called on its government to stop the delocalisation policy that has forced more than a hundred teachers to leave the profession act to close the national teacher gap, and stop the current teacher appraisal system.
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Trade union rights are human rights 28 March 2018 The UK University Strike – union renewal in action, by Howard Stevenson.
Howard Stevenson
Over the last few years I have researched and written a good deal about ‘union renewal’ – the process by which unions (re-)connect with their grassroots and create vibrant, inclusive and collective cultures that empower members to be the educators they want to be, working in the systems they aspire...
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Union growth 14 February 2018 The Netherlands: Educators’ Code Red continues
Dutch educators are on strike, demanding decent salaries and a normal workload, and urging the government to clearly and firmly address burn out and a shortage in teachers in primary education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 December 2017 The Netherlands: Strike action to protect quality primary education
Dutch educators are on strike today (12 December), demanding decent salaries and a normal workload. They are also urging the government to clearly and firmly address burn out and a shortage in teachers in primary education.
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Union growth 24 November 2017 Togo: education trade unions join forces to improve teachers' living and working conditions
Public sector primary and secondary education teachers embarked on a three-day strike to obtain better living and working conditions from the Togolese government.
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Union growth 18 October 2017 Kenya: Union support for university lecturers’ strike move
The Trade Unions Congress of Kenya has announced its support for lecturers in 31 Kenyan public universities who have given 21 days’ strike notice after the universities’ councils failed to increase their basic salary and housing allowance.
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Union growth 9 October 2017 France: Educators unite in defence of public service
The French affiliates of Education International are mobilising on 10 October to defend civil servants’ purchasing power and working conditions as they press for improvements in the quality of public services.
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Union renewal and development 15 May 2017 Colombia: Educators say funding for education is key to make peace-deal real
After three days of strikes, the stand-off between the government and education unions over funding remains unresolved.
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Union growth 4 April 2006 Kenya: Prepare for strike, union tells teachers
EI affiliate the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has called on its members to brace for a nationwide strike should the Government fail to implement the remaining phase of their salary increase scheme.
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Standards and working conditions 31 March 2006 Norway: 90,000 teachers strike over working-hour reforms
An estimated 90,000 Norwegian schoolteachers took part in a spot strike on Thursday to protest proposed working-hour reforms.
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Union growth 23 March 2006 Malta: Trade Unions in Solidarity with Teachers
Various trade unions showed support for EI affiliate the Malta Union of Teachers' (MUT) directive for a one-hour strike in state schools today.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 March 2006 UK: Lecturers begin strike action
Members of EI affiliates the AUT and NATFHE are taking strike action today because they say promises to use new money coming into the higher education sector to improve staff pay have been broken.
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