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Standards and working conditions 10 January 2025 France: Joint union action to acknowledge education support staff
We are against education personnel having to work in precarious jobs and who are being sacrificed and ignored. This was the slogan put forward by the inter-union alliance, which has called for a strike on January 16th, in support of SEN teaching assistants and education support assistants. Unions are asking...
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Standards and working conditions 3 December 2024 France: Strong union mobilisation to defend public sector workers
In the absence of a government response to proposals and demands made by trade unions to defend and improve the living and working conditions of public sector workers, an inter-union alliance has called public sector workers, including those in education, to a day of action, rallies, protests, and strikes across...
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Go public! Fund education 2 July 2024 Go Public! G7 milestone achieved by Education International and member solidarity
Education International (EI), alongside member organisations from G7 countries, sent a powerful message about the fundamental role of education unions and social dialogue ahead of the G7 Italy 2024 Ministerial meeting on Education.
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Democracy 3 May 2024 Global Student Forum and Education International joint statement on Palestine protests on university campuses
The Global Student Forum and Education International stand in solidarity with university students and staff engaging in peaceful protests in support of the Palestinian people and against Israel’s war in Gaza, on campuses around the world.
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Leading the profession 20 March 2024 France: Raise teachers’ salaries and invest more in public education, now!
Education International (EI) President, Susan Hopgood, expressed the solidarity of the global education trade union movement with French colleagues at the National Congress of the Syndicat National des Enseignements de Second Degré (SNES-FSU). She also stressed that the demands of the SNES-FSU, including its call for the government to invest...
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Standards and working conditions 13 March 2024 France: education unions mobilise for better wages and public education
No to the knowledge shake-up, yes to a wage shake-up! This is the message that education unions in France want to deliver to the government. Unions are opposing budget cuts, warning that the purchasing power of public sector workers’ is plummeting. They have called a strike for education staff on...
France: education unions mobilise for better wages and public education