Articles from United States of America
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Standards and working conditions 16 December 2010 EI and affiliates to make the case for teachers at global summit
EI and its US affiliate members, the National Education Association (NEA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT), will join world leaders from the OECD at a Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York, from 16-17 March, 2011.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 October 2010 USA: Educators are not waiting for Superman
American public education is facing attack on a scale without precedent. A new film favouring the privatisation campaign, which serves the interests of markets over children’s fundamental right to a quality education, has been released.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 October 2010 Lobbying for legislation to commit US to Global Education Fund
Despite world leaders committing to achieve universal primary education by 2015, as part of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Summit in 2000, this goal remains unfulfilled with limited progress and time running out.
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Standards and working conditions 11 August 2010 United States: Historic victory for education, teachers and unions
The US House of Representatives has voted to approve new legislation that will inject more than $10 billion in aid to states and school districts to save education jobs that were threatened by budget cuts.
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Standards and working conditions 2 July 2010 Education leaders unite for global summit
More than 9,000 delegates have gathered in New Orleans, USA, for the Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly of the National Education Association (NEA) - one of EI's largest affiliate members in America.
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Union renewal and development 22 June 2010 US unions call on President Obama to defend education funding
The presidents of America’s two largest teaching unions, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA), have rallied together to call on the US President to advocate for education funding at G8/G20 summits.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 June 2010 Civil society calls for action on Millennium Development Goals
Anti-poverty activists from around the world have gathered at the UN headquarters in New York for a ground-breaking meeting between civil society, private sector bodies and government delegation in the General Assembly.
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Equity and inclusion 7 June 2010 AFT hosts global webcast to end child labour
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is co-sponsoring a high level government and NGO policy dialogue at the State Department in Washington with global leaders.
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Leading the profession 22 April 2010 G20 Labour Ministers meet Obama – education and training on the G20 agenda
G20 labour and employment ministers met yesterday with President Obama and presented him with their recommendations to meet the challenges that the economic crisis is posing for workers and their families worldwide. This was the first time that ministers responsible for labour markets in the 20 largest economies in the...
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Union growth 20 July 2009 USA: Education reform must be good for kids and fair to teachers
Teachers and their unions should "be the engines of real change in education," Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, told thousands of educators meeting in Washington, D.C. from 13-15 July.
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Leading the profession 13 July 2009 A second stimulus for the US ?
The US needs a 2nd stimulus; Federal programmes try to compensate for State and local budget cuts; teachers and support staff in California - host for NEA's 2009 Annual meeting - are hit hard by State budget impasse.
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Standards and working conditions 7 July 2009 American teachers optimistic, despite challenges
“Hope starts here!” With a new partner in the White House, more than 15,000 American teacher trade unionists came together under this optimistic slogan at the National Education Association’s 88th Representative Assembly, 3-7 July in San Diego, California.
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Leading the profession 29 June 2009 The Economic Crisis: “How Did We Get Here?”
The most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression has exposed the failure of an obsolete economic growth strategy based on debt-fueled consumption.
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Union growth 4 June 2009 Urgent Action Appeal USA: Support for the Employee Free Choice Act
EI and its member organizations in the United States request your support for their campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The act would protect American workers’ rights to join unions and to bargain collectively, free from employer intimidation and threats of dismissal.
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Union growth 23 February 2009 AFT Letter to Hillary Clinton Urges Action on Zimbabwe
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has sent a letter from president Randi Weingarten to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing the union's concern over the continuing suffering of the Zimbabwean people and urging U.S. leadership to end the reign of terror and devastation wrought by President Mugabe.
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Union renewal and development 30 January 2009 Labour leaders welcomed to White House as media magnate lashes out at teachers’ unions
“Go after the teacher unions.” That was one piece of advice for President Barack Obama from media baron Rupert Murdoch, who spoke on 30 January to hundreds of business, union and civil society leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Union growth 14 January 2009 Global Union representatives in the US to show support for the Employee Free Choice Act
Anti-unionism is a widespread phenomenon in the USA. Senator Bill Hare of Illinois from the Democratic Party spoke to a global union gathering in Washington DC on 13 January on the Employee Free Choice Act. The Act is a legislation proposed to ensure that workers have a free choice and...
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 November 2008 American education unions welcome Obama’s election
Both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers have enthusiastically welcomed the election of Barack Obama, a “friend of public education,” to the White House.
American education unions welcome Obama’s election