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Trade union rights are human rights 4 February 2020 Ireland: Teachers strike for equal pay
A strike in secondary schools in Ireland has seen hundreds of establishments closed as teachers all over the country demand an end to pay discrimination.
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Union renewal and development 4 February 2020 Colombia: International trade union solidarity, the engine behind the development of Schools as Territories of Peace
In order to build a lasting peace in Colombia, a development cooperation programme between Canadian and Colombian teachers’ unions has helped to develop pedagogical circles and the programme of the Schools as Territories of Peace project.
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Union growth 3 February 2020 Argentina: Trade Unions Welcome Revival of Social Dialogue
Following a year of trade union struggle, the government has issued a decree reinstating the National Joint Negotiation Committee for Teachers (Paritaria Nacional Docente).
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Union growth 30 January 2020 Spain: FECCOO Organises Seminars on Education and Climate Change
The union demands that the education system take immediate action to save our planet
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Union growth 30 January 2020 The Netherlands: Strike action demands government funding of education and teachers
Education International strongly supports the Netherlands’ education staff who are set to strike again – they are seeking appropriate and sustainable funding in the public education sector. Most Dutch schools will be closed from 30-31 January.
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Union growth 29 January 2020 Malawi: Teachers’ strike and student support force government to pay salary arrears
Teachers in Malawi finally received their December 2019 salaries, thanks to strike action organised by the Teachers' Union of Malawi.
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Union growth 28 January 2020 "A teacher like me” – meeting with German teachers, crossing emotional bridges, sharing positive professional experiences on Holocaust education, by Talia Kranz.
Talia Kranz
What is more timely for us, Israeli teachers, than talking with our German colleagues about the fight against racism and anti-Semitism? It's already been happening for the 29th time! For the past 50 years, a bi-national seminar has been held once every two years attended by Israeli and German educators...
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Union growth 28 January 2020 “Susi”- a graphic novel about a Jewish girl in disguise - and how to work with the book in primary schools, by Silvia Stieneker (GEW, Germany).
Silvia Stieneker
I am a primary school teacher in Berlin. In the summer of 2019, I participated in a German-Israeli union seminar for teachers in Tel Aviv that was organized by the German union “Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW)” and the Israeli teachers union “Histadrut ha Morim”. In this seminar, we discussed...
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 January 2020 Holocaust remembrance: Education unions come together for Auschwitz memorial ceremony and Holocaust education conference
Education International member organisations from 17 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa are in Poland this week for the official ceremony marking 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The ceremony will be followed by a conference on Holocaust education organised by unions from...
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 January 2020 “The forgotten voices of the Holocaust”, by Yossi Michal.
Yossi Michal
The International Remembrance Day of the Holocaust is commemorated on January 27th. It is a good opportunity to reflect on a unique aspect of Learning about that period. I'll start with a short story. My family has lived for many generations in Romania. A few years ago, before my grandmother...
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Union growth 22 January 2020 Spain: Far Right seeks to ban educational content
Education unions have condemned the "parental PIN" that the Spanish ultra-right wing is promoting in a bid to undermine equality and diversity education in schools.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 January 2020 Kenya: Union calls for increased security as four teachers are killed in the first weeks of 2020
With several teachers killed in Kenya since the beginning of the year, concerns over teacher security are increasing, pushing unions to demand government protection for education workers.
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Trade union rights are human rights 10 January 2020 Iran: unions demand transparent investigation into plane crash
Education unions call for a clarification of the circumstances that led to the crash of Ukraine International Flight 752 outside Tehran, which claimed 176 victims, including professors and students.
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Climate action and literacy 9 January 2020 Australia: trade unions mobilise in the national bushfire crisis
Education International commends the Australian Council of Trade Unions for its prompt reaction to help communities affected by the raging bushfires and its call for donation and/or volunteering.
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Trade union rights are human rights 10 December 2019 The global trade union movement puts the Philippine government on notice: hands off human and trade union rights defenders!
Today, Human Rights Day, Education International, its affiliates and the global trade union movement stand with trade unionists and all those who defend human rights in the Philippines.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 December 2019 “Philippines: On Persecuting Teachers and Weaponizing Education”, by Raymond D. Basilio.
Raymond D. Basilio
Teachers and education in the Philippines are under siege. The Duterte government’s worsening attacks on all forms of dissent, disguised as a ‘whole-of-nation approach’ purportedly to end local communist insurgency, is taking its toll on the sector that is universally mandated to espouse and uphold social justice, human rights and...
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Union growth 4 December 2019 10 December | Solidarity with human and trade union rights defenders in the Philippines
On 10 December, Human Rights Day, the global trade union movement is coming together to stand with trade unionists and all those who defend human rights in the Philippines. Join us!
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 December 2019 Increasing number of attacks on academic freedom across the world documented by Scholars at Risks report
Reacting to the release of Scholars at Risk’s annual report documenting and analysing attacks on higher education communities around the world, Education International firmly denounces attacks on academic freedom and reiterates the need to counter the lack of funds, precarious employment conditions and the privatisation and commercialisation of higher education.
Increasing number of attacks on academic freedom across the world documented by Scholars at Risks report