We bring together our member organisations to discuss and share experiences, good practices and ideas on responding to collective challenges. Together we are building the education unions of the future: mass participation organisations that reflect the diverse interests and identities of their members and offer educators a multitude of ways to engage and contribute.
As millions of people around the world suffer the impact of the economic crisis, the global trade union movement is developing a bold strategy for recovery, a strategy based on social justice, decent jobs and international solidarity instead of unfairness, exploitation and greed.
Getting the World to Work: Global Union Strategies for Recovery
Teachers and trade unionists were well-represented among the 35,000 demonstrators who marched through the streets of London on 28 March to demand that leaders of the G20 make the needs of working people and the poor top priority when they meet this week to draft a global economic recovery plan.
Teachers join in call for G20 to put people first
Members of EI's Executive Board discussed a wide range of issues, in particular the emerging impact of the global economic crisis on public education around the world. Expressing concern that it will be a deep and lengthy crisis, the Board reaffirmed the importance of significant investment in quality public services...
Invest in education to mitigate economic crisis, EI leaders say
The first EI workshop on negotiations and organising was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 12 -13 March 2009, thus paving the way for a new initiative to support its members in the South East European region.
Georgia: Pilot project on collective bargaining launched
Developing strategies to minimise the impact of the global economic crisis on teachers, teacher unions and the education sector worldwide will be one of the top-priority items on the agenda as leaders of Education International meet from 24-26 March in Brussels.
EI leaders tackle economic crisis, other pressing issues
Planet Earth faces the real danger of abrupt climate change in the next 10 to 30 years, the consequences of which would be so catastrophic that the international community needs to take concerted and radical action now.
Union skills and radical action needed on climate change
The Education International Africa Regional Committee (EIARC) held its annual meeting in Lomé, Togo, from 16th-18th March. The representatives of the six zones of the African Region reviewed activities of the last year.
Africa: Unions to remind governments that education is central in the achievements of Millenium Development Goals
The 29th edition of EI's flagship magazine "Worlds of Education" focuses on the latest EI documentary produced for the Video for Union Educators (VUE) project: "Beyond Burma: lessons in hope for refugee children". The video offers a glimpse into the lives of dedicated teachers who, with few resources but plenty...
Latest edition of Worlds of Education now available for download
Education International and the International Trade Union Confederation are recommending that member organisations, and in particular those in the G20 countries, be represented at a TUC- organised march and rally in London on 28th March, immediately prior to the meeting of the G20 countries in London on 2nd April.
Let world leaders know what your organisation thinks - join the pre-G20 demonstration in London on 28th March!
On 1 January 2009 the contract between the Lebanese government and private hospitals to provide medical services to teachers and state employees expired. As of this date private hospitals refused to provide medical treatment to their previous patients even in crucial cases where immediate help was needed, i.e. kidney dialysis...
Lebanon: LPESPL, driving force against cuts in health care provision for teachers and state employees
The British government of Gordon Brown, host for the second G20 Summit in London on 2 April, is proposing “The Global Deal” as a basis for recovery from the worldwide financial and economic crisis.
Education should be in “The Global Deal” at the G20 Summit in London, 2 April 2009
The International Monetary Fund reports that increased government spending on public education will have a more powerful impact on the financial crisis than tax cuts.
Government investment in education helps fight financial crisis, says IMF
“Go after the teacher unions.” That was one piece of advice for President Barack Obama from media baron Rupert Murdoch, who spoke on 30 January to hundreds of business, union and civil society leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Labour leaders welcomed to White House as media magnate lashes out at teachers’ unions
Haiti’s struggling education system suffered another severe blow as tropical storms and hurricanes hit the island four times in August and September, bringing floods that killed more than 800 people and inflicting almost $1 billion in damage.
Hurricanes devastate homes and schools
Education International (EI), which represents 30 million educators worldwide, including the teachers’ organizations of Israel and Palestine, calls on the governments in both Gaza and Israel to do everything possible to prevent more children becoming victims of the current violence.
EI calls for exemption of education institutions from conflict in Palestine
Real progress on climate change will require collective action by governments worldwide, with the support and involvement of a whole range of social institutions, including trade unions.
Teacher unions tackle climate change, financial crisis
The Ugandan National Teachers Union (UNATU) presented its strategic plan at an All Donors Strategic Planning meeting in Kampala in mid November 2008. UNATU, sensitive to its role as a vibrant civil society organisation, is streamlining its development programme to better respond to the needs of its members and the...
Ugandan teachers plan for success
The latest issue of EI’s flagship magazine Worlds of Education features a series of articles celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, and reasserting human and trade union rights of teachers and education workers everywhere.
Worlds of Education: A special edition on human and trade union rights