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   Standards and working conditions 31 October 2024

   Italy: teachers strike for fair pay and job security amid austerity

   Education International (EI) stands in full solidarity with its member organisation, Federazione Lavoratori della Conoscenza (FLC CGIL), as it leads a national strike on 31 October 2024 to demand fair pay and job security. The strike comes in response to the Giorgia Meloni government's austerity measures, which have frozen wages,...

   Italy: teachers strike for fair pay and job security amid austerity

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   Go public! Fund education 2 July 2024

   Go Public! G7 milestone achieved by Education International and member solidarity

   Education International (EI), alongside member organisations from G7 countries, sent a powerful message about the fundamental role of education unions and social dialogue ahead of the G7 Italy 2024 Ministerial meeting on Education.

   Go Public! G7 milestone achieved by Education International and member solidarity

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   Go public! Fund education 28 June 2024

   Fund education: An urgent appeal to the G7

   Call to the G7 Italy 2024 Ministerial meeting on Education

   Education International supports the following statement released ahead of the G7 Italy 2024 Ministerial meeting on Education, following an initiative of Federazione Lavoratori della Conoscenza (FLC-CGIL), concerned by the exclusion of education unions from this important convening:

   Fund education: An urgent appeal to the G7

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   Democracy 12 October 2021

   The attack on the CGIL in Italy is an assault on democracy

   Education International condemns the assault by neo-fascist groups on the CGIL union headquarters.

   David Edwards, General Secretary of Education International, the global federation of teachers and education workers, expressed his outrage after the headquarters of the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL), the largest union confederation in Italy, was ransacked by neo-fascists.

   The attack on the CGIL in Italy is an assault on democracy

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 June 2021

   G7 leaders commit to support girls’ education but fall short on financing the promise

   During last weekend’s meeting, G7 leaders announced their support for theGirls’ Education Declaration and committed to addressing the setbacks brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, financial commitments announced for the Global Partnership for Education are below the amount needed to ensure the most vulnerable have access to education.

   G7 leaders commit to support girls’ education but fall short on financing the promise

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   Fighting the commercialisation of education 6 April 2021

   Europe: Study on industrial relations and privatisation

   A study for the ETUCE, EI’s European region, showed the impact of market ideology and management practices and privatisation on industrial relations and social dialogue. In addition to looking at the evolution of EU policy in the past decade, researchers studied different methods and results of industrial relations in Francophone...

   Europe: Study on industrial relations and privatisation