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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 April 2014 Teaching Profession Now and in Future - Passing on Cultural Values
The Spring ETUCE Committee 2014 On 14-15 April 2014, the ETUCE Committee convened to debate on the major challenges and issues currently at stake in the education sector in Europe. Bringing the future priorities for teacher unions in Europe into focus, the Committee members decided that the ETUCE Special conference...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 April 2014 Spain: Austerity called into question
Austerity measures and structural reforms have come under fire in Spain, one of the countries most affected by the economic crisis. Now, the Constitutional Court of Spain and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) are reviewing the viability and adequacy of the laws passed as part of the restructuring plans.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 April 2014 Quality education takes centre stage across the UK as unions call for policy change
National teachers’ unions across the UK delivered a similar message in support of their members and students, calling for quality education and targeting government policy as members congregated at their annual conferences throughout the Easter break.
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Union renewal and development 17 April 2014 Education International sends condolences to South Korean ferry victims
Education International would like to express its strongest condolences to the families of those lost and still missing following the tragic South Korean ferry sinking off the country’s south-western coast. The ferry, en-route from Incheon to the tourist island of Jeju capsized April 16 with 475 passengers and crew on...
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 April 2014 Nigerian Teachers’ union condemns abduction of female students
Eight students are still missing after Nigeria’s military rescued 121 school girls two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint in the country’s north-eastern Borno State. In response, The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has firmly condemned the 14 April abductions carried-out by suspected members of the terrorist group Boko...
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 April 2014 Lebanon: strike follows Government failure to decide educators’ salary increase
The Union Coordination Committee (UCC) comprising Lebanon’s four EI national affiliates – the Ligue des professeurs de l’enseignement secondaire public du Liban (LPESPL), the Teachers Syndicate of Lebanon (TSL), the Comité des enseignants techniques officiels (CETO), and the Public Primary Schools Teachers League in Lebanon (PPSTLL) - along with other...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 April 2014 Finland: citizens raise their voices on the future of education
The Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö(OAJ) has launched an initiative with a “machine of the future” travelling around Helsinki.
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Union renewal and development 16 April 2014 Education unions urged to keep political parties at a distance in Accra
Education unions should keep a safe distance from political parties was the message Marieme Sakho Dansokho told members of the African regional committee in Accra from 14-16 April. The Secretary General of the Teachers' Union of Senegal (SYPROS) said that some of the difficulties faced by African education unions are...
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Union renewal and development 16 April 2014 Philippines: EI affiliates assess post-typhoon needs
EI’s national affiliate, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), the Federation of Free Workers – Trade Federation VII (FFW), the National Alliance of Teachers and Office Workers (SMP-NATOW), and the Teachers’ Organisation of the Philippine Public Sector (TOPPS) conducted the EI Post Haiyan (Yolanda) Rehabilitation Initiative from 3-7 March in...
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 April 2014 EI throws support behind Moldovan union to kick start salary negotiations
Moldova’s Prime Minister has made a personal pledge to find the sources needed to increase teacher pay by 1 May following a week of mass teacher-led protests outside of parliament.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 April 2014 Education International joins global leaders to launch Emergency Coalition
Education International strengthened its global partnerships Thursday as it joined an emergency coalition of leaders set on getting all children into quality schools.
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Standards and working conditions 11 April 2014 Icelandic social partners in education end labour dispute with successful result
On 4 April 2014, a new agreement ended the recent conflict between the Icelandic EI member organisation Kennarasamband Islands (KI) and the Icelandic government. In the background of the dispute which lasted for three weeks and culminated in several days of strike of the upper secondary teachers, there was the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 April 2014 500 days to get 57 million children to school
Working together to break down the barriers to education for the 57 million out-of-school children: this is the key aim of the 2015 Countdown Summit taking place today, 10 April, in Washington, DC, in the US. With only 500 days left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), EI will...
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Equity and inclusion 9 April 2014 Dublin: Collective action, individual responsibility at heart of sustainable progress on gender equity
In an era of increased attacks on education unions and on public education, and when 100 million young women cannot read a single sentence, EI’s role as a trade union, a professional organisation, and an advocate for quality education has never been more important. These were the sentiments expressed by...
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Equity and inclusion 8 April 2014 Dublin: Different struggles, same goals for women in education
An equitable and quality education for all that nurtures critical thinking must be embedded in a broader struggle for social justice. That’s according to Mary Metcalfe, Chairperson of the Open Society Foundations’ Education Advisory Board. She was addressing the second day of EI’s three-day Second World Women’s Conference being held...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 April 2014 Euro-demonstration: 50.0000 people demanded new directions for Europe
50.000 people from 21 European countries took to the streets of Brussels to participate in the large European trade union demonstration organised by ETUC on 4th April 2014 in Brussels. Trade unions from many different sectors and from all over Europe raised their voice against further austerity measures and for...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 April 2014 New report underlines the fact that Europe is still suffering from the crisis
The Social Protection Committee released the 2013 annual report on the social situation in the European Union named ''Social Europe – many ways, one objective" on 19 March 2014. The report stresses that the social situation in the European Union is not improving while in some countries the situation is...
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Union growth 8 April 2014 Social workers more likely to work while sick
Social workers are more likely to come to work while sick than the average worker in EU28, a recent Eurofound report shows. The report compares working conditions for social workers in kindergartens, schools, youth services, and social care with the EU28 as a whole.
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