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Trade union rights are human rights 6 August 2018 Lesotho: public authorities must act on education unions’ concerns
Education International has supported its Lesotho’s affiliates striking to protest the government’s refusal to consider their legitimate demands concerning teacher professional issues and the achievement of quality education for all.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2 August 2018 UK: worrying mental health issues for too many students
Reacting to the announcement from the UK Department for Education on plans for all schools to teach children about good physical and mental health, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers has stressed that mental health issues represent a daily fact of life for many students.
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 July 2018 Public private partnerships: education unions involved in cross-sectoral activities
Education International and partners have reasserted the need for organisations from the water, housing, education and health sectors to take coordinated action on public private partnerships.
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Union growth 23 July 2018 American Federation of Teachers: Hope in times of darkness. Our collective voice is stronger!
Under the banner of "We care. We fight. We show up. We vote,” more than 3 000 educators, health professionals and public employees came together for the biannual convention of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 July 2018 Education and Solidarity Network will relentlessly advocate for improved health and well-being in education
At its General Assembly, the Education and Solidarity Network renewed its commitment to remain a trusted, expanding and innovative network promoting health and well-being in educational settings the world over.
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Trade union rights are human rights 13 July 2018 Brazil: trade union’s resistance to attacks on education
The Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação has been successful in pushing back a bill in the Brazilian Parliament that would prevent the expression of any political, ideological, or partisan ideas in classrooms.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 July 2018 New Zealand teachers and nurses to hold first mass strike in a generation
Thousands of nurses, primary school teachers and principals are calling on New Zealand’s public authorities to ensure decent pay for educators, as well as guaranteeing the future of quality public education, and are prepared to walk off the job.
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Trade union rights are human rights 10 July 2018 Colombia: stop the wave of violence and harassment targeting education unionists!
Education International supports its affiliate, the Federación Colombiana de Educadores, in denouncing and firmly condemning assassinations and threats targeting Colombian educators, trade unionists, and social leaders.
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Equity and inclusion 4 July 2018 Defending the right to education! Latin American teachers’ unions fighting against making education a business, by Gabriela Sancho
Gabriela Sancho
What is becoming increasingly significant in the rest of the world has long since been reality in Latin America; education as a business. To get parents to send their children to fee-paying private schools and students to attend expensive private universities, the public education system has had to be maligned...
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Trade union rights are human rights 29 June 2018 Canada: EI honours two prominent union leaders from Quebec
The Congress of the Centrale de syndicats du Québec highlighted the importance of education’ trade unions for workers, students and society as a whole, and acknowledged the work of two eminent union leaders, Louise Chabot and Daniel Lafrenière.
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Union growth 27 June 2018 Chile: educators stand up against sexism, harassment, abuse and discrimination in education
Thousands of Chilean educators, students and activists have reaffirmed their support to building a new education system, that is non-sexist and free of violence, abuse and discrimination. Education unionists mobilise to fight gender violence in the classroom
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 June 2018 Unions vow to remain strong despite Janus ruling
The Supreme Court of the United States just delivered a painful blow to working people and to the unions which stand up for their rights. In a narrow 5 to 4 vote, the justices decided in the Janus v. AFSCME case, that public sector unions must use their resources to...
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Union growth 26 June 2018 Fighting racism with the light of learning, by Glen Hansman
Glen Hansman
Canadian teachers, like our colleagues worldwide, are united in a desire to make the world a better place by confronting social injustices such as racism. In our troubled times, disturbing signs of a resurgent neo-Nazi, white supremacist movement have got teachers across North America talking about how best to confront...
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Democracy 20 June 2018 ILO Director General denounces “New Brutalism”
“We have entered an age of new brutalism,” ILO Director General Guy Ryder told delegates of the 5th World Congress of UNI in Liverpool on 19 June. “We have entered an age where it is OK to dehumanize those who are rejected, who are marginalized, who are different or who...
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 June 2018 UNI Global Union elects Christy Hoffman as General Secretary
The Union Network International (UNI) elected Christy Hoffman, a labour leader from the United States, as its new General Secretary.
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Standards and working conditions 14 June 2018 Burkina Faso: Education unions are key to developing quality policies for teachers
Education International has encouraged the fifteen education unions in Burkina Faso to take an active part in a multi-partner project aimed at concertedly developing new policies for teachers.
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Standards and working conditions 7 June 2018 Belgium: Trade unions concerned about increased workloads for teachers
In a common front involving three trade unions, around 600 education trade union activists have clearly expressed their opposition to workload increases.
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Trade union rights are human rights 6 June 2018 Why it’s important to have a voice at the International Labour Conference, by Roberto Trochez Bardales
Roberto Trochez Bardales
I would like to thank Education International for giving Colprosumah the opportunity to participate in the 107th Session of the International Labour Conference at the ILO in Geneva, Switzerland on behalf of this global teachers’ federation of which we are proudly members. Our participation focused on denouncing the inequalities and...
Why it’s important to have a voice at the International Labour Conference, by Roberto Trochez Bardales