Todo el personal docente y de apoyo educativo tiene derecho a sindicarse y afiliarse a un sindicato que represente y defienda sus valores e intereses. Sin embargo, en todo el mundo, los sindicatos de la educación se enfrentan a graves ataques y trabajan en entornos cada vez más difíciles y hostiles. El camino a seguir pasa por revitalizar los sindicatos, ampliar su poder incrementando la afiliación y la participación activa y maximizar su impacto.
EI deplores the detention of 11 members of the Tehran teacher association on 6 October for "celebrating World Teachers' Day".
Iran: teacher unionists arrested for "celebrating World Teachers' Day"
EI supports the results of the high-level fact-finding mission of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to the Philippines, which asked the government to categorically denounce the killings of workers and the rampant violations of trade union rights.
EI supports ILO mission's denouncement of labour rights abuses in the Philippines
A study to be released today by Education International highlights the atrocious scale of human rights violations against Colombian teacher trade unionists.
Colombian teachers face highest rates of political violence: Education International
Teachers and trade unionists across Latin America have issued a strong denunciation of the violence and murders that have taken place since the military coup in Honduras, and call for the restitution of the country's legitimate president.
Another teacher killed in post-coup violence
Fears of a return to dictatorship and political violence in Honduras are compounding the grave economic crisis facing countries across Latin America.
Latin American educators confront political and economic crises
In consultation with the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations, EI submitted an allegation to the UN Human Rights Council under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Iran: EI draws attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the situation of teacher unionists
EI has launched an urgent appeal for action to its member and partner organisations on 3 September to engage their help in appealing against the dismissal of the president of the Fijian Teachers' Association (FTA) Tevita Koroi.
EI launches Urgent Action Appeal for the Fijian Teachers' Association
Mientras miles de iraníes se echaban a las calles de Teherán y otras ciudades para exigir un proceso electoral justo, trabajadores y trabajadoras de todas partes del mundo manifestaban su apoyo a favor de la justicia social en Irán. La Internacional de la Educación y sus afiliadas se unieron a...
Solidaridad internacional con los trabajadores iraníes
“Abre una escuela y cerrarás una cárcel” – Victor Hugo
Enseñar para abolir la pena de muerte
Trade unions worldwide continue to protest at the continued harassment, random judicial proceedings and detention of members and leaders of the teacher union Egitim Sen and Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK).
Turkish unionists remain in jail
Escalating violence in Honduras against those protesting the military coup of 28 June has left two teachers dead: Roger Abraham Vallejo and Martín Florencio Rivera.
Teachers killed in violent repression in Honduras
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.
USA: Education reform must be good for kids and fair to teachers
In recent weeks, EI member organisation Egitim-Sen and the Confederation of Public Employees’ Unions (KESK) – to which EI’s member is affiliated – have suffered a series of attacks by the Turkish authorities, including the occupation and searches of the trade union premises by the security forces, arrest and preventive...
EI launches Urgent Action Appeal for Turkey
Education International, together with other Global Unions and a hundred trade unionists and human rights activists, demonstrated on 26 June in front of the Iranian Embassy in Brussels to demand justice for Iranian workers.
EI joins with other trade unions to demand rights for workers and a free society in Iran
Education International, together with International Trade Union Confederation, the European transport workers’ Federation, and other trade unionists, human rights activists and concerned individuals, will gather in front of the Iranian Embassy at 1.00 pm on Friday 26 June, at this Iran Action Day, to protest the lack of union rights...
EI to participate in Iran Action Day protest events on 26 June
Demonstrations at Iranian embassies and consulates in Bangkok, Canberra, London, New Delhi, Tokyo and Wellington, among others, are some of the protests that have now been scheduled for an action day on Iran on June 26th. Four global union organisations representing over 170 million workers have called the worldwide action...
Embassy protests spearhead Iran action day
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.
Urgent Action Appeal USA: Support for the Employee Free Choice Act
Education International has written to the government of Turkey to condemn the fact that more than 30 members of Egitim Sen, EI’s Turkish affiliate, were arrested in the early hours of 28 May. In a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, EI deplores this latest police action against...
Turkish teacher activists arrested