Our aim is to bring together teacher activists internationally by recording the struggles such as teacher strikes of teaching unions and others against 'reforms' like teacher cuts which are standing in the way of truly creative and free education for the world's children.
This site has been set up as a result of our book 'The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers and their Unions: Stories for Resistance.''
Holland’s largest teachers union is on strike today against a bill that will increase teachers’ working hours and cut their holidays. They are also protesting against cuts to special needs education, a salary freeze and the introduction of performance-related-pay.
Hundreds of temporary teachers blocked Cairo’s Salah Salem highway and marched on their headquarters last week, demanding permanent appointments and bonuses, ahramnonline reports.
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A US school district has confiscated a number of critical books from its schools, after coming under pressure from the state to end its Mexican American studies programme.
Teachers in Bangladesh’s non-government schools are holding a strike demanding nationalisation of their jobs and a wage rise in line with the salaries of teachers in government primary schools.