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Trade union rights are human rights 4 September 2013 Protest against detention of Canadian academics in Egypt
EI is urging its member organisations to press the Egyptian authorities to immediately release two Canadian professors who have been detained without charges by the Egyptian police since 17 August.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 September 2013 France: Improved status for support workers for students with disabilities
EI affiliates the Syndicat national des enseignements de second degré (SNES-FSU), the Syndicat national unitaire des instituteurs, professeurs des écoles et PEGC (SNUipp-FSU), and the Union nationale des syndicats autonomes-Education (UNSA-Education) welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of the permanent appointment of 28,000 support workers for students with...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 September 2013 Education at heart of trade union recommendations to G20
Putting public services such as education high on the G20 agenda is just one of the priority recommendations from the Labour 20 (L20) for the G20 leaders’ meeting to be held in St Petersburg, Russia, from 5-6 September. The L20 is made up of the elected representatives of trade unions...
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Union growth 27 August 2013 Germany: Berlin’s teacher unionists on strike
Berlin’s educators have gone on strike over better working conditions and an improved salary scale, according to the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW), one of EI’s national affiliates.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 August 2013 EI marks anniversary of March to Washington
28 August marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was during this March that American activist Martin Luther King delivered his iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, calling for an end to racism in the US.
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Equity and inclusion 23 August 2013 EI: Respect for every child’s right to education
EI welcomes this initiative by affiliates to initiate international work to fight child labour. “Teachers are uniquely placed to make sure that every child’s right to education, and furthermore to quality education, is respected worldwide,” EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen said.
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Trade union rights are human rights 22 August 2013 South Africa: unions bring Department of Basic Education to court
EI’s national affiliates, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU), the South Africa National Professional Teachers’ Organisation (NAPTOSA), and the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie(SAOU), joined by the Professional Educators Union and the National Teachers’ Union, have taken the fight to reinstate a collective agreement to court. The agreement, signed between teacher unions...
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Union growth 22 August 2013 Teacher unions in the Pacific learn more about their rights
EI organised a workshop enabling representatives of 16 member organisations in the Pacific to campaign for the promotion of trade union rights in the region. The workshop was hosted in Fiji on 19-22 August with the support of the Workers Group of the International Labour Organisation (ILO-ACTRAV).
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Equity and inclusion 21 August 2013 Educators' network to empower women in the Pacific
Over 40 representatives from 11 countries in the Pacific gathered for two days in Fiji to outline their unions’ plans to grow the women’s networks and promote equality in education and unions in the region. The women’s network meeting was held prior to the triennial conference of the Council of...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 21 August 2013 TISA, a threat to free quality public education
EI has sent out a briefing note on the Trade in International Services Agreement (TISA) to its affiliates, informing them about these trade negotiations that threaten to liberalise public services like healthcare and education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 August 2013 Malaysia: Government demand for data hinders quality teaching
The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP), one of EI’s national affiliates, has explained that the extra work of collecting and providing data to the Education Ministry and the new teaching system hinder quality teaching.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 August 2013 Nigeria: mass protest to save public education
On 13 August, the Joint Action Front (JAF) led a national mass protest to save public education in Nigeria. EI’s national affiliate, the National Union of Teachers (NUT), is a JAF member.
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Equity and inclusion 19 August 2013 USA: Education unionists mobilise for immigration reform
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has called on the US House of Representatives to adopt legislation initiating a comprehensive immigration reform.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 August 2013 New Zealand: Parents and teachers back up Labour's rejection of charter schools
The New Zealand Educational Institute-Te Riu Roa (NZEI Te Riu Roa), one of EI’s national affiliates, has said it would support the election of a Labour-led Government, as the latter would repeal the current legislation favouring privately led schools (charter schools) and focus on improving the status and situation of...
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 August 2013 Fiji: Exposing the clampdown on union rights
An EI delegation is attending regional meetings on labour standards in Fiji. EI representatives are holding talks with teachers' representatives from the Fijian Teachers' Association and the Fiji Teacher Union who deplored the clampdown on union rights since the 2006 coup.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 August 2013 Greece: Sign union petition to save public education
The Greek Federation of Secondary State School Teachers (OLME), one of EI’s national affiliates, has organised an online petition to protest against the planned suspension and dismissal of Greek teachers.
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 August 2013 UK: Education Secretary must listen to teachers, not attack them
Two of EI’s affiliates, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), have criticised a survey released by the UK polling organisation, Populus.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 August 2013 Ghana: Education union invests in teacher professional training
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) will continue to invest in upgrading the skills and knowledge of its members while urging the government to organise quality in-service training for all teachers in the country. GNAT has derived many benefits from its cooperation on teachers’ professional development training with the...
Ghana: Education union invests in teacher professional training