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Puerto Rican Students Continue the Struggle against Cuts

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 Student knocked unconscious by police

Students in Puerto Rico took part in a massive demonstration this week

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July 02 2010 | General | No Comments »

London Teachers occupy Balfour Beatty Offices

Teachers at St Aloysius school in Islington were on strike yesterday against dangerous building work being undertaken by multinational Balfour Beatty continue reading »

July 02 2010 | General | No Comments »

Teachers across India Struggle to Improve Pay and Conditions

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 SSA Teachers on Hunger Strike Last Year

Teachers in many parts of India are struggling to improve their pay and conditions

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July 01 2010 | General | No Comments »

Strikes Across Europe aginst Public Spending Cuts

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 One of a Series of General Strikes in Greece this Year

Teachers continue to play a leading role in strikes against cuts in education across Europe

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July 01 2010 | General | No Comments »

Teacher Union Colleagues on Trial in Turkey

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 A Previous Teachers’ Demonstration in Turkey

Teachers from the Turkish Teaching Union Egitim Sen are facing long prison sentences

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June 29 2010 | General | No Comments »

Italian Teachers take Action against Cuts

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General Strike in Italy

Italian teachers have been taking part in action against the Berlusconi government’s cuts package

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June 29 2010 | General | No Comments »

Teaching Without a Union

An excellent video from a Canadian teaching union showing what teaching might be like without unions… (OSSTF) takes a light-hearted but prescient look at what teaching could be like without unions. The sad thing is that many of the things predicted in the video are already happening in different ways in different countries as governments in both OECD countries and the Global South try to make public services, especially education, pay for the crisis.

June 29 2010 | General | No Comments »

Nationwide Strike in France

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Teachers will be walking out in France tomorrow as part of a nationwide strike across all industries, in protest against government attempts to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62.

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June 23 2010 | General | No Comments »

Nigerian Teachers are still Fighting for Pay

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 A Previous Strike by Nigerian Teachers

Teachers in the Oyo state of Nigeria are still having to take strike action to secure payment of salary arrears

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June 19 2010 | General | No Comments »

Honduran Leader addresses EI Meeting in the Dominican Republic

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 One of Last Year’s Demonstrations against the Coup

Honduran Leader Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales who was ousted in a military coup has been addressing a regional conference of Education International

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June 19 2010 | General | No Comments »

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