Articles from United Kingdom
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Union renewal and development 5 April 2008 Teachers mourn sudden death of NUT leader Steve Sinnott
Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers in the UK, died suddenly on 5 April 2008. He was 56. The leaders and members of Education International join with teachers across the UK and indeed around the world in mourning the loss of this outstanding teacher trade unionist,...
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News 11 December 2006 Disability Equality Duty: helping to secure equality for disabled staff in the UK
Groundbreaking new legal duties recently introduced in the UK could greatly improve the prospects of disabled people working or hoping to work in colleges and universities, says EI affiliate the University and College Union (UCU).
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News 25 August 2006 UK: EI Affiliate gives vocal support to International Day of Peace
EI affiliate the NASUWT is supporting the United Nations International Day of Peace on 21 September by encouraging schools to sing a specially-composed song for peace.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 June 2006 UK: University lecturers have wages docked in pay dispute
Striking lecturers at Glasgow University are to have their wages docked as their bosses try to end the deadlock over pay.
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Union growth 29 May 2006 UK: Lecturers prepared for prolonged pay battle with universities
Leaders of Britain's largest lecturers' union, EI affiliate the NATFHE, have voted unanimously to escalate their national pay dispute with universities, with a call to hold out for their demands "to Christmas and beyond".
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 April 2006 UK: Union leader quits through stress
A former president of EI affiliate the National Union of Teachers broke down in tears yesterday as he revealed how stress and "government bullying" had forced him to quit the teaching profession.
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Trade union rights are human rights 28 March 2006 UK: Teacher unions show solidarity with 1m striking local government workers
EI affiliates the NASUWT, NUT and AUT are supporting local government employee unions in their one day strike today; part of the campaign to demand fair treatment over pension rights in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 March 2006 UK: AUT-NATFHE Conference on Brain Drain
On March 23, EI affiliates the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the University and College Lecturers’ Union (NATFHE) organised a conference on “Brain Drain” as the final stage of a two-year project on the subject, which had its origins within the EI’s higher education debates.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 March 2006 Union fury as employers ban unions from pay dispute talks
EI affiliates the AUT and NATFHE have reacted with astonishment and anger at news today that the Universities and Colleges Employers (Ucea) Association have gone back on a commitment to meet them next week to try and resolve the current pay dispute for higher education staff.
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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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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 March 2006 UK: Unions join together to fight against tuition fee increases
A coalition of EI affiliates in the UK have joined the National Union of Students (NUS) to fight against any tuition fee increases in the run up to a funding review planned for 2008. This could result in the removal of the £3,000 cap on tuition fees by 2010.
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Equity and inclusion 2 March 2006 UK: Gender pay gap is worst in Europe
EI affiliates in the UK have expressed their opinions following the publication of the Women and Work Commission’s ‘Shaping a Fairer Future’ report which found women earn only 83% of the male hourly rate.
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Union growth 14 February 2006 UK: Peter Smith, former ATL general secretary dies
Former general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), and member of EI’s European Committee, Peter Smith, has died at the age of 65.
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Equity and inclusion 7 February 2006 UK: new challenges facing LGBT teachers
"With the increasing multicultural nature of western European societies, new obstacles have emerged for the achievement of LGTB rights. We hear of teachers who no longer dare to be open about their sexual orientation, afraid of hostile reactions by students some of whom are driven by religious fanatism," said EI...
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Standards and working conditions 6 February 2006 UK: Strike ballot as college tries to sack 500 lecturers, forcing them to re-apply for jobs
Lecturers at Walsall College of Arts and Technology have voted unanimously to be balloted for strike action as their management tries to use a curriculum review to impose worse contracts of employment.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 February 2006 UK: Union achieves pay parity victory for college lecturers in Wales
A landmark agreement that will give Welsh college lecturers pay parity with schoolteachers has just been concluded, seeing £11.5m ploughed into staff pay on top of the £20m invested over 2003 and 2004.
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Standards and working conditions 1 February 2006 UK: Victory for hourly paid lecturer
A settlement in an employment tribunal case may have implications for the pay and conditions of millions of part-time workers in education in the UK.
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Standards and working conditions 23 January 2006 UK: All sex offenders to be barred from teaching
All sex offenders will be barred from working in schools, the education secretary, Ruth Kelly announced yesterday as she sought to end a career-threatening row by unveiling a tougher than expected set of streamlined regulations.
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