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The Charlatan: Double strike looms at U of M

University of Manitoba could face double dose of picket lines

The University of Manitoba already has one strike on its hands, and could be facing another as early as this week.

Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 2007, representing the school’s food service staff, groundskeepers, skilled tradespeople and engineers, walked out Oct. 10. The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA), which represents most of the school’s professors, has set a strike date of Oct. 18.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: City teachers union seeks strike approval

The union representing about 3,500 teachers and other Pittsburgh Public Schools employees plans to conduct a strike authorization vote by mail, though Superintendent Mark Roosevelt says the tone of contract talks has been upbeat.

Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Teachers Vote With Their Feet

As qualified teaching staff leave their jobs and flood out of the country, the schools are filling up with untrained teachers.

By Yamikani Mwando in Bulawayo (AR No. 138, 15-Oct-07)

Zimbabwe’s schoolteachers once belonged to the elite who could afford houses and cars, but increasing numbers are now joining the exodus of economic migrants, leaving pupils in the hands of untrained replacements.

In the Eighties, when the country was still in euphoric mood after achieving independence, teachers looked forward to a life of plenty. Today, however, they say they have been turned into paupers by the deepening economic crisis. Like most Zimbabweans – especially others working in the large public sector – teachers have found their salaries eroded almost to nothing by spiralling inflation, currently estimated at over 6,600 per cent year on year.

Sofia Echo: BULGARIAN TEACHERS’ STRIKE CONTINUES AS BOTH SIDES HARDEN POSITIONS

Teachers’ unions have repeated their demands for an average salary of 648 leva for everyone working in the educational system, including non-pedagogical staff.

The strike was to continue on October 22, while Parliament discussed the vote of no-confidence, mediapool.bg said.

One week before the local elections of October 28, Prime Minister and leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Sergei Stanishev showed no sign of giving in. A few days before, an agreement had been reached with the unions for 650 leva teachers’ salaries as of July 1 2008. Only a few hours later the unions denied having agreed to it and sent to their local sections a proposal under which salaries for teachers would reach 720 leva and that for non-pedagogical staff 420 leva. Average salary for the sector would then be 650 leva.

Sofia Echo: BULGARIAN TEACHERS’ STRIKE TO CONTINUE INTO FOURTH WEEK

09:22 Mon 15 Oct 2007

Negotiations on October 14, between representatives of teachers’ unions, government, Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski, Education Minister Daniel Vulchev and President Georgi Purvanov have not let to an agreement on the teachers’ salaries. The teachers are expected to continue their strike on October 15, going into their fourth week.

WTAE: Stalemate Continues In Seneca Teachers Strike

Monday marked week two for the teachers’ strike in the Seneca Valley School District. Both sides said progress has been made, but no agreement has been reached.

Jerusalem Post: Strike generates confusion at universities

senior lecturers’ strike in universities across the country enters its second day on Monday after negotiations between the Finance and Education ministries failed to produce a new wage agreement on Sunday.

Haaretz: University strike enters 3rd day as senior faculty reject mediation

The senior faculty strike at universities enters its third day, after their representatives decided to reject Education Minister Yuli Tamir’s proposal Sunday to bring in an outsider to mediate between the sides.