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News 16 September 2011 EI set to celebrate World Day for Decent Work
For the fourth year in a row, EI welcomes the International Trade Union Confederation’s World Day for Decent Work (WDDW) which takes place on 7 October. On this day, all trade unions around the world will stand together to call for decent work to be put at the heart of...
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News 15 September 2011 Lecturers vote in favour of action over pensions
Lecturers at leading UK universities have voted for action over planned changes to their pensions with more than three-quarters (77 per cent) of University and College Union members, who took part in a ballot, voting for a “sustained campaign of industrial action.”
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News 14 September 2011 Uganda: Teachers strike for quality education
In recent months, EI affiliate Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) has been leading demands for major improvements in the welfare of teachers within the country.
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News 12 September 2011 Kenya: Teachers protest in nationwide strike
School will start a little later than usual this year in Kenya as teachers have gone out on strike across the country to demand the government awards permanent contracts to thousands of teachers.
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News 12 September 2011 Italy: Teachers strike against cuts
Teachers in Italy have joined other public sector workers in mass strike action against cuts in public spending. Three million public sector workers went out on strike last week with major demonstrations in many cities including Milan, Naples and Rome. The protesters included teachers, transport workers and other public sector...
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News 9 September 2011 Obama responds to union challenge on jobs by promising to invest in education
In a passionate address to both houses of Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama has unveiled his plan to reenergize job creation in the stagnant U.S. economy. The president proposed a major investment in the nation’s infrastructure, including a fund to help modernize America’s school buildings – an idea strongly supported...
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News 8 September 2011 Latin America stands in solidarity with Chile
EI’s Regional Office in Latin America called on teacher unionists across the continent to assemble in front of Chilean embassies on 8 September in solidarity with the country’s people who are engaged in an ongoing battle for quality public education.
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News 6 September 2011 Congo: Union demands action to defend teachers’ conditions
The Syndicat des enseignants du Congo (SYECO), an EI affiliate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has called for urgent action by the national authorities to accept teachers’ demands for a salary increase.
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News 6 September 2011 North American teachers celebrate Labour Day
Teachers across Canada and the USA have used the annual Labour Day celebration, which falls on the first Monday of September, to honour the social and economic achievements of workers.
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News 30 August 2011 Spain: public education is paying for the crisis
In a letter to secondary school teachers in Madrid, the city’s region mayor, Esperanza Aguirre, called on teachers’ ‘sense of duty’ in this time of crisis to do two more contact hours a week from the beginning of the new school year.
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News 9 August 2011 USA: Education workers demonstrate against privatisation
Thousands of students, teachers and education advocates from across the USA have gathered in the capital, Washington DC, for the ‘Save Our Schools’ march and rally to demonstrate against privatisation and to stand up for public schools.
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News 8 August 2011 Greece: Teachers plan new strikes for September
Teachers and university professors in Greece are planning a new wave of strikes in September after seeing their pay and benefits cut by the equivalent of two months of pay a year. Hundreds of thousands of people, including teachers, have been demonstrating on the streets of Greece over the last...
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News 8 August 2011 Liberia: Teachers struggle for a living wage
Members of the National Teachers Association of Liberia (NTAL) have launched a campaign for a decent living wage for all school teachers and education workers. Professional teachers currently earn as little as US$100 per month – which is an inadequate sum to survive on in a country where food prices...
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News 8 August 2011 Sierra Leone: Teachers’ pay award blocked by IMF
Teachers in Sierra Leone have had their pay rise blocked by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Despite the fact that teachers can earn as little as US$50 per month in Sierra Leone which is wholly inadequate to sustain one person, let alone to provide for an entire family, an IMF...
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25 July 2011 Policy paper on education: Building the Future through Quality Education
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25 July 2011 Resolution on Education Support Employees
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25 July 2011 Resolution on the Sustained Funding of Public Education in the midst of the Economic Crisis
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25 July 2011 Resolution on the campaign for quality public education for all in Haiti