Education unions have urged the UK public authorities to increase investment in schools and implement adequate distribution of funding. NASUWT: “Stockpiling of public money, often at the expense of the children and young people” “The NASUWT has and will continue...
“This is a crime, not an accident. We mourn for the dead and sympathize with the victims of this terrible tragedy. Vale has failed to learn from the past. And now its workers are paying the ultimate price with their...
Two recent decisions by an Amsterdam court mark a victory in the ongoing fight for worker rights in the 'platform economy'. In two cases brought by the FNV on behalf of workers at the food delivery company Deliveroo, the court...
The annual Educa trade fair organised by Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, a national education union affiliated to Education International, OAJ, will bring together thousands of Finnish teachers and education policymakers. The Educa fair, Finland’s and the entire Nordic region’s largest event in...
The IUF and Spanish-based Meliá Hotels International have signed an agreement on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace, the first such agreement between the IUF and an international hotel chain. The agreement was signed on January 17 by IUF General...
24.01.2019 Colombia's state-owned oil company, Ecopetrol, has unfairly dismissed Enrique Rodríguez, Joaquín Padilla and Wilmer Hernández, leaders of Colombian oil workers’ union, USO, which is affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union. USO'snational executive committee called the dismissals a flagrant violation of...
24.01.2019 Members of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate Unifor formed a blockade outside General Motors’ (GM) headquarters in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada on 23 January 2019 to protest the company’s plan to shut the local assembly plant. GM made a commitment in...
Education International and education unions worldwide celebrate the first ever International Day of Education, calling on governments to make quality public education for all a reality. On 3 December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted, with consensus, a...
The syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company calls for urgent action: National TV’s show "Burnt Plot" is a pretext to crush workers' demands and protests in Iran On Saturday, January 19, 2019, the news section of national...
Philippines: Teacher unionists threatened Topics in this post: Education International has launched an urgent action appeal encouraging the global community of educators and activists to express outrage at the death threats received by the General Secretary of the Alliance of...