ONP Congress
- Host organizations
- ONP Congress
- Cooperating organizations
- SADTU South Africa, UEN Norway, Lärarförbundet Sweden
- Countries
- Mozambique
- Start date
- 21 August 2019
- End date
- 22 August 2019
- Topics
- union building;Organizing, recruiting;
- Description
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Crowning a global development cooperation initiative, the 4th Congress of the Organizaçao Nacional dos Professores modified the organisation’s constitution to become a trade union able to engage in social dialogue and improve teachers’ working and living conditions.
- Goals
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The main objective of the 4th Congress of the Organizaçao Nacional dos Professores (ONP) was to change ONP’s constitution so that it could become a union.
- Activities
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Held on 21-22 August in Mantola, the ONP congress debated the theme of “Unionisation of ONP: guaranteeing social dialogue to improve the condition of the teaching profession” and adopted a strategic plan for the coming years. Delegates elected the new members of the union’s National Council, the National Secretariat and the Fiscal and Jurisdictional Council.
- Results
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This aim was fully achieved when delegates adopted the constitution of the National Union of Teachers of Mozambique (ONP/SNPM).
- Website
- https://www.ei-ie.org/en/detail/16399/mozambique-educators-set-up-a-trade-union-to-open-social-dialogue-and-improve-teachers’-conditions
