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News Daily: British teachers union plans strike vote

LONDON, Jan. 25 (UPI) — Britain’s National Union of Teachers says it will poll members on whether to call a one-day strike April 24 over pay in England and Wales.

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Burundi: Teachers Suspend Their Planned Strike

Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)

Teachers have suspended a strike that they have planned to start on 15 February.

Teachers’ trade unions have planned to stage a strike to protest against the rape that teachers of Gihungwe primary school were subjected to. This move follows the progress of the investigations that the police have undertaken in order to arrest those bearing responsibilities. The unions say that strike would impact on the good progress of the police investigations.

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First published in The Australian, Australia, on Wednesday 13th February 2008

Strike to close 500 schools

A record number of schools will close across Victoria tomorrow as teachers strike for more pay.

Australian Education Union Victorian president Mary Bluett said about 25,000 teachers were expected to strike.

About 400 of the state’s 1575 state schools already had notified the union they would close for the day-long action. More than 100 other schools were expected to join them.

The Namibian (Windhoek): Namibia: Unam Strike Now Off

AN eleventh-hour intervention by Education Minister Nangolo Mbumba has averted a planned strike at the University of Namibia (Unam).

Unionists told staff at a lunch-hour meeting yesterday that management had agreed to a seven per cent across-the-board increase – backdated to January 2007. Staff wanted 12 per cent while Unam offered nothing, claiming its coffers were empty. Union sources said Mbumba informed them that Government had some funds that would be channelled to Unam, as staff were preparing to go on strike this morning. On Tuesday, Unam staff voted overwhelmingly to strike until they got increased wages and transport allowances.

Herald Sun: Teachers strike closing one-third of schools

MORE than 10,000 teachers have overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution to continue statewide strike action in their fight for better pay.

As many as 25,000 teachers across Victoria walked off the job today as the stalemate continues in wage talks with the state government.

More than a third of those striking teachers packed rally meetings in Melbourne and Mildura today, endorsing the resolution which proposes a continued campaign of rolling regional stopwork action.

More than half of the state’s 39,000 public teachers have walked off the job today, with 12,000 expected at Vodafone Arena for the 10.30am rally.

Nigerian Tribune: Teachers in Rivers threaten strike action

Bolaji Ogundele, Port Harcourt – 17.02.2008

Teachers in Rivers State have threatened to down tools if their demands for payment of outstanding bonuses and allowances are not paid within 14 days. The teachers had on Wednesday stormed the Government House, Port Harcourt in protest over the non-release of some bonuses promised them by the government, including Christmas Bonus.

But the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Rivers State branch, in a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting in Port Harcourt at the weekend and signed by Chief Chris Oruge and Apostle Samuel Mandah, state chairman and secretary respectively said the demands of the workers include payment of 15 percent consolidated wages for primary school teachers in the state.