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Trade union rights are human rights 7 April 2021 USA: Education unions join forces to build back better education system
With a new administration vowing to “build back better” from the public health, education, and economic crises of the Trump era, the two largest US educators’ unions, both Education International affiliates, have a shared agenda to ensure students and school communities receive the support they need for recovery and renewal.
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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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Climate action and literacy 1 April 2021 EIRAF Launches Climate Change Network in Southern Africa
EIRAF Launches Climate Change Network in Southern Africa
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Union growth 26 March 2021 COVID-19 impact continues to affect terms and conditions in education
Deepening inequalities across the education sector were revealed at a recent Education International webinar. Affiliates shared experiences of working to improve the terms and working conditions of teachers, academics, and education support personnel. The webinar aimed to inform Education International’s work in this area during the current public health crisis.
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Union growth 26 March 2021 Mauritania: Educators’ strike for pay increase and better living conditions
On 22 March, teachers engaged in a three-day general strike to demand a pay increase and better living conditions. This strike was punctuated with massive protests near the Education Ministry headquarters in the capital city, Nouakchott, and in the various provinces.
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Union growth 24 March 2021 Morocco: Strikes and demonstrations demand better conditions for contract teachers
Despite harassment and violence by police forces, Moroccan teachers' unions continue to demonstrate in the capital city, Rabat, to demand permanent contracts and better working conditions. They are also protesting against the rising cost of living.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 March 2021 DRC: online union training full of promise
The Fédération nationale des enseignants du Congo/Union Nationale des Travailleurs du Congo (FENECO/UNTC) has closed the end of its online Trade Union Academy on the fundamentals of trade unionism.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 March 2021 Statement by the Francophone Trade Union Committee for Education and Training on the occasion of the International Francophonie Day March 20, 2021
A Francophonie in action for peace, democracy, rights and freedoms.
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Equity and inclusion 19 March 2021 Women power unions: Advancing women’s leadership at the 65th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
The 65th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is taking place online between the 15th and the 26th of March. Delegates from Education International and other global unions are taking part in the Session to advance women’s full and effective participation in public life.
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Trade union rights are human rights 16 March 2021 German and Austrian unions call for more education support personnel specialised in health issues
While the COVID-19 crisis is still raging, the Gewerkschaft Öffentlicher Dienst (GÖD) of Austria and the German Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE) have pointed out that an increasing number of children with chronic illnesses are attending schools. The unions have urged their respective public authorities to hire more health professionals...
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Trade union rights are human rights 15 March 2021 Iraq: KTU succeeds in getting teachers added to COVID-19 vaccine list
Vaccinating and providing free COVID-19 tests for teachers were just two of the recommendations presented to the Health Minister by the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU).
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 March 2021 Vaccine nationalism and crisis profiteering: Unions take action
“Just 10 countries, some of the richest in the world, have administered 75% of vaccinations. Meanwhile, around 130 countries that account for 2.5 billion people have not administered a single dose. This is not an issue on which we can afford to be passive. The only solution to a global...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2021 Taiwan: Education union denounces government for allowing profiteering by retirees
The National Teachers Association (NTA) insists that reemployment rights of public retirees in Taiwan should be respected but their right to a full pension should be limited.
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Trade union rights are human rights 10 March 2021 Philippines: Union condemns Duterte Government’s denial of youth’s right to education
With schools closed for one year in the Philippines, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) has criticised President Duterte for being the biggest obstacle to the realisation of the youth’s right to education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Union renewal and development 10 March 2021 Biggest Development Cooperation Network meeting ever showcases union solidarity in action
Solidarity, joint action, climate education, and human rights were amongst the headline topics addressed at Education International’s Development Cooperation Network.
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Equity and inclusion 8 March 2021 International Women’s Day 2021 | Statement of Global Union Federations for the Arab region
Calling on all Trade Unions to ‘Step it up for a World of work free from violence and harassment’.
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Union renewal and development 8 March 2021 International Women’s Day 2021
International Women’s Day 2021
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 March 2021 Nigeria: students and schools must be protected from attacks
Attacks from armed groups against schools and students have been increasing in the last months in Nigeria, where kidnapping for ransom is a widespread criminal enterprise. Nigerian authorities must act swiftly to protect the right to education of children, especially girls.
Nigeria: students and schools must be protected from attacks