Articles from Italy
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Leading the profession 31 October 2024 Italy: teachers strike for fair pay and job security amid austerity
Education International (EI) stands in full solidarity with its member organisation, Federazione Lavoratori della Conoscenza (FLC CGIL), as it leads a national strike on 31 October 2024 to demand fair pay and job security. The strike comes in response to the Giorgia Meloni government's austerity measures, which have frozen wages,...
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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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Go public! Fund education 28 June 2024 Fund education: An urgent appeal to the G7
Call to the G7 Italy 2024 Ministerial meeting on Education
Education International supports the following statement released ahead of the G7 Italy 2024 Ministerial meeting on Education, following an initiative of Federazione Lavoratori della Conoscenza (FLC-CGIL), concerned by the exclusion of education unions from this important convening:
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Democracy 12 October 2021 The attack on the CGIL in Italy is an assault on democracy
Education International condemns the assault by neo-fascist groups on the CGIL union headquarters.
David Edwards, General Secretary of Education International, the global federation of teachers and education workers, expressed his outrage after the headquarters of the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL), the largest union confederation in Italy, was ransacked by neo-fascists.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 June 2021 G7 leaders commit to support girls’ education but fall short on financing the promise
During last weekend’s meeting, G7 leaders announced their support for theGirls’ Education Declaration and committed to addressing the setbacks brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, financial commitments announced for the Global Partnership for Education are below the amount needed to ensure the most vulnerable have access to education.
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Union growth 6 April 2021 Europe: Study on industrial relations and privatisation
A study for the ETUCE, EI’s European region, showed the impact of market ideology and management practices and privatisation on industrial relations and social dialogue. In addition to looking at the evolution of EU policy in the past decade, researchers studied different methods and results of industrial relations in Francophone...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 June 2020 “COVID-19 crisis: the education situation in Italy”, by Rossella Benedetti.
Rossella Benedetti
In Italy, the first COVID-19 cases were discovered at the end of January. It was another month before the spread of the virus forced us to suspend face-to-face lessons. At the beginning of March, teachers, in lockdown at home, began distance teaching, while administrative, technical and cleaning staff still had...
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Trade union rights are human rights 8 May 2020 Italy: A trade union Manifesto for inclusive education
Italian education trade union is asking educators to sign a manifesto laying out seven points for inclusive education during COVID-19.
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Union growth 12 March 2020 Beijing +25: "Making the Promise of Beijing a Reality for Learners and for Education Sector Workers."
madeleine kennedy macfoy
Examples of the work done by Education International and its member organisations in different parts of the world since the Beijing Platform for Action was adopted in 1995, demonstrate the power of taking collective action to find collective solutions.
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Union growth 22 May 2019 “The Italian school system is in danger”, by Francesco Sinopoli.
Francesco Sinopoli
The General Secretary of the Federation of Knowledge Workers of the Italian General Confederation of Labour reacted to the suspension of Rosa Maria Dell’Aria, a teacher from Palermo. The teacher was penalised in this manner because it was alleged that she did not supervise the work of her 14-16 year-old...
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Union growth 22 May 2019 “Attacks on democracy and teachers in Italy”, by David Edwards,
David Edwards
Extreme Right parties, often populist and nationalist, have become stronger than in any time since the Second World War. We have witnessed a return of racist, xenophobic and authoritarian policies and politics on all continents of the world.
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Trade union rights are human rights 22 May 2019 In Italy, unions mobilise to defend academic freedom
After the suspension of a teacher for the contents of a video produced by her students, the Italian education unions are taking action to denounce an attack on academic freedom and a serious threat to democracy.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 September 2018 “Education unions: vital to meeting the professional needs of educators”, by Howard Stevenson
Howard Stevenson
Many countries face huge problems recruiting educators to work in schools, colleges and universities and creating the working conditions that retain them in that work. Research studies also show that educators rarely get access to the type of high quality professional development they need to be as effective in their...
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Union growth 24 August 2018 Statement to the G20 Education and Employment Ministers
As the voice of the world’s educators, we welcome the inclusion of education as a priority for the G20, and hope the commitment to education will be ensured moving forward into Japan in 2019.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 June 2018 “Between hope and despair in the EU copyright reform- What's in it for education?”, by Nikola Wachter
Nikola Wachter
I am a teacher by training and I am concerned about the current European Union copyright reform. I am familiar with the day to day practices of preparing lessons, the search for the best picture, text snippet, piece of music or video that will help me to explain a certain...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 May 2018 Go for it! The Bologna ministerial summit in Paris, by Andreas Keller
Andreas Keller
Isn’ it ironic? 50 years ago, in May 1968, students in Paris were going to the barricades and aspiring to a societal revolution – and initiated an overdue reform of higher education almost throughout Europe eventually. Today, in May 2018, ministers in charge of higher education from 48 countries belonging...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 April 2018 Copyright and education: unequal conditions for teaching and learning in Europe, by Teresa Nobre
Teresa Nobre
What can a teacher do in a classroom with a poem, a video, an artwork or a piece of music created by someone else? From early childhood education to higher education, literary and artistic works can be used by teachers, academics and researchers, education support personnel and students for educational...
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Equity and inclusion 15 March 2018 “What Europe can do for refugees and migrants’ education” by Silvia Costa MEP
Silvia Costa
Refugees and migrants education, especially minors, is a top priority, the best way to empower them and foster their integration, but also one of the principles on which the EU is funded. It is incredible, though, that education of migrants - especially forced migrants and refugees - seems to be...
“What Europe can do for refugees and migrants’ education” by Silvia Costa MEP