Articles from United States of America
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Trade union rights are human rights 10 March 2011 USA: Senators restrict public-sector and teacher unions' rights
Republicans in the Wisconsin state senate have approved a regressive plan to strip public-sector and teacher trade unions of most of their collective bargaining rights.
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Union growth 1 March 2011 EI combats attacks on teachers' union rights
The threat from the hard-line Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker to remove teachers’ collective bargaining rights, as well as health and pension benefits, has brought thousands of pro-union activists onto US streets.
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Standards and working conditions 1 March 2011 New York City threatens massive teacher redundancies
Amid stout battles to save collective bargaining rights for teachers, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA) have learned that up to 5,000 teachers are threatened with redundancy in New York.
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Trade union rights are human rights 24 February 2011 Historian of education defends teachers’ right to organise
Eminent academic Diane Ravitch has delivered a stinging rebuke of Wisconsin's Governor, Scott Walker, and his efforts to reduce pay of teachers and public sector workers, while restricting their collective bargaining and union rights.
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Standards and working conditions 18 February 2011 Teachers Worldwide Express Solidarity with US Public Employees
Teachers around the globe are deeply concerned about efforts to strip educators and other public employees of fundamental trade union rights.
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Standards and working conditions 18 February 2011 Expression of Solidarity with US Public Employees by Fred van Leeuwen, EI General Secretary
On behalf of Education International, the Global Union Federation representing 30 million teachers and education workers through 396 member organisations in 171 countries and territories, I express our concern over Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget bill to strip 175,000 state employees, including teachers, of collective bargaining rights.
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Standards and working conditions 14 February 2011 EI General Secretary meets US Education Secretary
EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, has paid a courtesy visit to the Secretary of Education of the United States of America, Arne Duncan, in Washington DC.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 February 2011 Wear a pink heart for quality public education!
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is encouraging everybody to wear a pink heart on 14 February, Valentine’s Day, as a symbol of love for quality education and public services.
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Standards and working conditions 16 December 2010 EI and affiliates to make the case for teachers at global summit
EI and its US affiliate members, the National Education Association (NEA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT), will join world leaders from the OECD at a Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York, from 16-17 March, 2011.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 October 2010 USA: Educators are not waiting for Superman
American public education is facing attack on a scale without precedent. A new film favouring the privatisation campaign, which serves the interests of markets over children’s fundamental right to a quality education, has been released.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 October 2010 Lobbying for legislation to commit US to Global Education Fund
Despite world leaders committing to achieve universal primary education by 2015, as part of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Summit in 2000, this goal remains unfulfilled with limited progress and time running out.
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Standards and working conditions 11 August 2010 United States: Historic victory for education, teachers and unions
The US House of Representatives has voted to approve new legislation that will inject more than $10 billion in aid to states and school districts to save education jobs that were threatened by budget cuts.
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Standards and working conditions 2 July 2010 Education leaders unite for global summit
More than 9,000 delegates have gathered in New Orleans, USA, for the Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly of the National Education Association (NEA) - one of EI's largest affiliate members in America.
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Union renewal and development 22 June 2010 US unions call on President Obama to defend education funding
The presidents of America’s two largest teaching unions, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA), have rallied together to call on the US President to advocate for education funding at G8/G20 summits.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 June 2010 Civil society calls for action on Millennium Development Goals
Anti-poverty activists from around the world have gathered at the UN headquarters in New York for a ground-breaking meeting between civil society, private sector bodies and government delegation in the General Assembly.
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Equity and inclusion 7 June 2010 AFT hosts global webcast to end child labour
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is co-sponsoring a high level government and NGO policy dialogue at the State Department in Washington with global leaders.
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Leading the profession 22 April 2010 G20 Labour Ministers meet Obama – education and training on the G20 agenda
G20 labour and employment ministers met yesterday with President Obama and presented him with their recommendations to meet the challenges that the economic crisis is posing for workers and their families worldwide. This was the first time that ministers responsible for labour markets in the 20 largest economies in the...
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 July 2009 USA: Education reform must be good for kids and fair to teachers
Teachers and their unions should "be the engines of real change in education," Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, told thousands of educators meeting in Washington, D.C. from 13-15 July.
USA: Education reform must be good for kids and fair to teachers