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Trade union rights are human rights 29 March 2011 Teachers are indispensable for the promotion of health and safety in schools
This conclusion was drawn by Professor Davison Munowadawafa at a meeting on school health and safety, evaluating the outcome of the EI EFAIDS programme.
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Trade union rights are human rights 28 March 2011 EI launches new teachers’ work-related stress project in Europe
EI’s newly formed European Region, ETUCE, is launching a survey amongst teachers to map the harmful effects of stress.
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Union growth 28 March 2011 Teacher unions under attack in Bahrain and Yemen
While teacher unions are determined to continue to voice demands for more freedom and rights in the region, EI keeps receiving worrying reports about attacks against teachers and unionists.
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Union growth 25 March 2011 EI welcomes the appointment of the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to association and assembly
Mr. Maina Kiai, chairman of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC), has been appointed by the Human Rights Council as Special UN Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association for a period of three years.
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 March 2011 Collective action against mendacious attacks
A New Year’s pledge from hardline Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, to remove teachers’ collective bargaining rights, as well as their health benefits and pension entitlements, has brought thousands of pro-union demonstrators on to the streets in all 50 U.S. states in solidarity with the Wisconsin unions.
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Union growth 25 March 2011 Teacher unions attacked in Bahrain and Yemen
While teacher unions are determined to continue to voice demands for more freedom and rights in the region, EI keep receiving worrying reports about attacks against teachers and unionists.
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Trade union rights are human rights 24 March 2011 New Zealand: Teachers under Pressure
In a recent survey of members, the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) was shocked to discover 86 per cent of teachers experience stress at work, while 24 per cent of respondents said stress levels are ‘of concern’ or ‘intolerable’. The union is tackling this problem everyone needs a way to...
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Union growth 24 March 2011 Honduras: EI Executive Board condemns workers’ repression
The EI Executive Board in Cape Town has condemned the murder of teacher Ilse Ivania Velásquez as a new low in an increasingly deteriorating situation in Honduras.
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Trade union rights are human rights 24 March 2011 Unions commit to HIV activism to ensure quality education in West Africa
Challenges to secure quality education in the West African countries of Senegal and Mali include overcrowded classes, over-stretched teachers and under-resourced schools. The impact of HIV and AIDS is another factor with the potential to complicate access and provision of education.
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Union growth 17 March 2011 Bahrain: University students attacked as violence escalates
EI has condemned the suspension of higher education in Bahrain as the brutal repression of pro-democracy protesters demanding political reforms within the kingdom continues.
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 March 2011 South Africa: Government must endorse UN policy on human rights
EI and its national affiliates, SADTU, NAPTO, and SAOU, are urging the Government of South African to sign up to the joint statement on ending violence and related human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Union growth 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 3 March 2011 Cyprus: teacher unions urge Turkey to end political and economic pressure
Cyprus: Union urges Turkey to end political and economic pressure EI affiliate, the Cyprus Turkish Teachers’ Trade Union (KTOS), has joined other national unions to denounce the impact of AKP policies on education workers in the country.
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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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Union growth 1 March 2011 Pakistan: Striking teachers win negotiations for better conditions
More than 7,000 Pakistani teachers have called off their indefinite strike after the Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, issued a special directive in relation to upgrading teachers’ conditions bringing uniformity to pay scales within the education system.
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Union growth 25 February 2011 Greece: Teacher unions join forces to fight neo-liberal policies
The Greek Federation of Secondary Education School Teachers (OLME) and the Primary Education Teachers’ Federation (DOE) are protesting against austerity measures which are damaging education by holding a 48-hour strike.
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Union growth 25 February 2011 A season of change in the Arab world
The speed of political and social change in the Middle East and North Africa has astounded the international community.
A season of change in the Arab world