Articles from Poland
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 May 2017 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 October 2016 Government’s education reform plan is harmful, Polish educators say
Education unionists have been at the forefront of the protest against the education reform, which they believe will lead to mass educator dismissals and a decrease in the quality of education.
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Standards and working conditions 15 October 2015 Polish “Teachers' Protest Day” draws thousands to the capital
More than 15 thousands teachers and workers in education, from primary to higher education and science, took to the streets of Warsaw Wednesday to protest against education policy on the Day of National Education.
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Union renewal and development 28 January 2015 An honest look at the facts is needed to improve the way we teach about the Holocaust
Renowned historian and Yale professor Timothy Snyder captivated educators in Krakow, instantly converting them into admiring students eager to learn, as he untangled the complex and often misunderstood history of the Holocaust.
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Union renewal and development 26 January 2015 How best to teach the Holocaust 70 years after liberation
Education unions from around the world are in Poland to find ways to better teach the Holocaust on the eve of the 70th anniversary marking the liberation of the extermination and concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Union renewal and development 26 January 2015 How best to teach the Holocaust 70 years after liberation
Education unions from around the world are in Poland to find ways to better teach the Holocaust on the eve of the 70th anniversary marking the liberation of the extermination and concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Union renewal and development 21 November 2014 Poland: moving up the international rankings thanks to teachers
Teachers were seen as the driving force behind Poland’s improving school system when delegates met for the 41st National Congress of the Polish education union ZNP, while increasing privatisation was high on the agenda.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 October 2011 Poland: Government welcomes EI’s action protecting Polish minority teachers and students in Lithuania
EI’s European Region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), adopted a Statement on the Situation of the Teachers from the Schools of National Minorities in Lithuania on 16 September at the Central and Eastern European (CEE) Round Table in Kiev. In response, the Undersecretary of State at the...
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Union growth 20 September 2011 Massive Euro-demonstration in Poland
More than 50,000 people took to the streets in Wroclaw, Poland, on 17 September to demand greater European solidarity and employment.
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Equity and inclusion 20 July 2010 Successful Europride makes a stand for LGBT rights
Trade unionists joined 10,000 equality campaigners from across Europe at the Europride in Warsaw, Poland. This was the first event of its kind in a post-communist country, and the largest European celebration of LGBT rights.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 March 2008 Polish teachers’ union calls for comprehensive ECE provision
The Polish Teachers’ Union (ZNP) has called on the Polish government to ensure that comprehensive early childhood education services are provided to all young children in the country. This would ensure equalisation of opportunities for all young children in Poland and contribute to their physical, social, cognitive and emotional development.
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News 28 January 2008 Teacher unionists observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz
In an emotional gesture of solidarity and reconciliation, the leaders of teacher unions from Poland, Israel and Germany have visited Auschwitz together to pay their respects to the victims of the Holocaust.
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Standards and working conditions 4 June 2007 Poland: Negotiations are progressing
Nearly half of Polish schools took part in a two-hour strike on 29 May called by EI affiliate ZNP to support demands for a 20% pay rise for education personnel, increase of expenditure on education and the upholding of the right to early retirement until at least 2011 and the...
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News 23 April 2007 Members of the Pan-European Equality Commitee honoured Memories of Holocaust Victims
Members of the Pan-European Equality Standing Committee honored the memories of the victims of the Holocaust with a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial on 22 April, prior to their meeting in Krakow, Poland.
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Equity and inclusion 23 March 2007 Poland: Over 12 000 teachers demonstrated in Warsaw over discrimination on grounds of political beliefs and sexual orientation
Over 12 000 teachers from all over the country gathered in Warsaw on 21 March to protest against the government harassment of gay and lesbian teachers and teachers with left-wing sympathies.
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News 7 February 2007 Poland: teachers denounce the denial of the Holocaust by Iranian President
EI member organisation the Zwi¹zek Nauczycielstwa Polskiego (ZNP) issued a statement on 27 January criticising the denial of the Holocaust by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Equity and inclusion 21 June 2006 Poland: Director of teacher training centre sacked over LGBT inclusive language in manual on human rights education
Education International has written to the Polish minister of national education, Roman Giertych, following the dismissal of Miroslaw Sielatycki, Director of the National In-Service Teacher Training Center (CODN).
Poland: Director of teacher training centre sacked over LGBT inclusive language in manual on human rights education