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   Trade union rights are human rights 5 June 2025

   International Labour Conference: Workers’ Group supports call to strengthen Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel

   Addressing the Committee on the Application of Standards at the International Labour Conference on June 3rd, EI President Mugwena Maluleke responded to the report of the joint ILO-UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART). As the Workers’ Group spokesperson, Maluleke welcomed the proposal...

   International Labour Conference: Workers’ Group supports call to strengthen Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel

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   Trade union rights are human rights 27 May 2025

   Argentina: Call to solidarity with teachers and education unionists

   Education International (EI) launched a call to solidarity with Argentinian teachers and education unionists who are confronted with major attacks against their rights to strike and to collective bargaining.

   Argentina: Call to solidarity with teachers and education unionists

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   Trade union rights are human rights 27 May 2025

   Argentina: Unions denounce new government attack on the right to strike and teacher salaries

   Teachers’ unions in Argentina are denouncing a new wave of attacks by the Argentinean government, as President Javier Milei announced measures to limit the right to strike for teachers and dismantle collective bargaining for salaries at the national level.

   Argentina: Unions denounce new government attack on the right to strike and teacher salaries

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   Trade union rights are human rights 6 December 2024

   New series on Operation Condor seeks to recover the historical memory of Latin American dictatorships

   “We know that the first victims of the dictatorships were education professionals, who were the targets of control, persecution, imprisonment, torture, death, disappearance and the curtailment of free thought.”

   New series on Operation Condor seeks to recover the historical memory of Latin American dictatorships

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   Fighting the commercialisation of education 30 July 2024

   The fight for public education and universities in present-day Argentina

   Yamile Socolovsky

   Public education in Argentina is under threat from a political agenda that has made its way into the national government and aims to – in the words of President Javier Milei himself – “destroy the state from within”. Arguing that the state is a “criminal organisation” that attacks freedom (of...

   The fight for public education and universities in present-day Argentina

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   Future of work in education 13 May 2024

   Argentina: Trade unions stand together against austerity in national strike

   In a powerful show of solidarity and collective strength, Argentina witnessed a massive national strike on May 9th. Called by the Confederación General del Trabajo (General Confederation of Labor – CGT) and supported by the two Argentinian Workers' Confederations (CTA), the strike reflected workers’ resistance to the austerity measures imposed...

   Argentina: Trade unions stand together against austerity in national strike