Author Archives: E Wayne Ross

BBC: Teachers warn of strike option

Teachers’ pay strike
About a third of schools were disrupted in last month’s teachers’ strike

Teachers raised the prospect of further classroom disruption over pay with a warning that an autumn ballot for strike action remains an option.

The National Union of Teachers closed thousands of schools in England and Wales this term with a one-day strike.

Green Left: ‘No deal’ say Victorian teachers

Victorian Premier John Brumby announced on May 5 that a deal had been struck with the Australian Education Union. While Mary Bluett, AEU branch president, described it as “the deal we were fighting for”, many union members are furious with the agreement made on their behalf.

Norway Post: 3000 teachers on strike

The Confederation of Unions for Professionals, Norway (Unio) has rejected the latest wage offer and has called 2500 teachers and 500 nurses out on strike. The unions for state employees, on the other hand, have accepted a new wage offer of 6.2 per cent.

The arbitration which was to have ended Thursday midnight, went on until late Friday evening, 22 hours on overtime.

The strike by teachers and nurses will from Monday affect the cities of Bergen and Tromsoe and the municipalities of Baerum and Karmoey to a varying degree.

Toledo Blade: Teacher strike averted
Toledo board OKs fact finder’s report on contract

The Toledo Board of Education yesterday approved a fact finder’s report resulting in the first new contract with teachers in seven years.

By doing so, the possibility of a teachers’ strike was avoided.

Bloomberg.com: Norwegian Teachers, Health Workers to Strike Over Pay, VG Says

May 24 (Bloomberg) — Norwegian labor union Unio Kommune called on 3,000 teachers and health-care workers to strike after it rejected a local government accord on pay, newspaper Verdens Gang reported, citing a union official.

The health workers will strike starting today and the teachers will stage a walk out on May 26, Unio Kommune’s Helga Hjetland said, according to the newspaper.

ABC News: Teachers ramp up wage campaign

Striking teachers have voted to up the ante in their wage claim against the Government, with a full day’s strike now planned for later this month as well as rolling stop work meetings.

The gulf between the union and the Government is now wider than ever.

Striking teachers today clarified they want 20 per cent over three years compared to the Government offer of 11 per over three years.

Radio New Zealand: French Polynesia urged to join French teacher strike this week

Posted at 03:24 on 14 May, 2008 UTC

Teachers in French Polynesia have been urged to join a French national one-day strike against possible job cuts outlined in the budget.

The FSU union has called on Tahiti’s teachers to meet outside a Papeete high school the day after tomorrow to show their opposition to the planned elimination of 11,000 education jobs later this year.

It says the consequences for the territory will be serious as the running of schools is to become, from next year, a matter for the territorial government.

Socialist Worker: Striking against academies

It is now official. Any proposal by an employer to transfer staff to a new employer can be the subject of a trade dispute and strike action.

That’s the message coming out of Bolton after last week’s strike at Withins School.

The picket line saw an absolutely solid turnout from NUT teachers’ union members at the school, and delegations of teachers from other schools, trade unionists and pupils and parents.