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Trade Union Training

Country: Sri Lanka
Start Date: 1995-01-01
End date: 2008-12-31
Host organisations: All Ceylon Union of Government English Teachers (ACUGET)
Ceylon Tamil Teachers' Union (CTTU)
Sri Lanka Independent Teachers' Union (SLITU)
All Ceylon Union of Teachers (ACUT-G)
English Language Teachers Union of Sri Lanka (ELTUSL)
Co-operating organisations: Utdanningsforbundet / Union of Education Norway (UEN)
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Project Summary:

Principal Aims:
-strengthen trade union rights for education workers and help them influence the development of society and educational policy

Expected Results:
-cooperation between the trade unions
-mutual meetings and strategies
-stronger democratic development in each organisation

Methodology:
-joint training of elected representatives

Participants:
-members and elected representatives in the teachers’ trade unions
-the political leadership in the organisations
-women

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Common Name: Sri Lanka
Official Name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

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