Courier Mail: Queensland Teachers Union vows more industrial action
THE State Government has been warned it risks six months of industrial strife if it tries to back out of promised pay rises for hundreds of thousands of staff.
Before the state election in March, the Government signed a memorandum of understanding with several unions representing public servants and other state employees.
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BBC News: Teachers to strike at academies
More than 120 teachers at two newly-designated academy schools in Essex are due to strike over fears of increased working hours and reduced holidays.
Members of the teacher unions the NUT and NASUWT at Chalvedon and Barstable secondary schools in Basildon are due to strike on Tuesday 19 May.
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Lusaka Times: Teachers in Southern province resolve to strike next Monday
Teachers in Southern Province have resolved to go on strike when schools re-open for the second term on Monday.
Basic Education Teachers Union of Zambia, BETUZ,Acting Chairperson, Mwangala Dyaunka and Provincial Secretary, Basil Hibajeene, disclosed this to ZANIS in Mazabuka today.
The two union officials said the teachers resolved not to report to work in order to press government to expedite the conclusion of negotiations for increased salaries and improved conditions of service.
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Detroit Free Press: DPS officials meet with teachers’ union leaders
Detroit Public Schools officials met with city, state and national teachers’ union leaders in Washington, D.C. today, just weeks before contract negotiations are expected to begin in Detroit.
DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb and his top academic appointee, Chief Academic and Accountability Auditor Barbara Byrd-Bennett, met with Detroit Federation of Teachers President Keith Johnson and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten at AFT headquarters, according to district officials.
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MTI/Hungarian News Agency: LIGA strike – Teachers join strike, disruption sporadic
Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – Around six thousand public education employees joined the LIGA union strike on Friday, according to the education trade union PDSZ chairman Gabor Kerpen, who told MTI that the strike had been successful.
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The Age: Teachers poised to strike for better pay
Queensland teachers are voting on whether to take strike action, possibly within two weeks, as they pursue a new wage deal with the state government.
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ABC News: Qld teachers vote to stage 24-hour strike
Queensland’s state school teachers will go on strike for 24 hours over its pay dispute with the State Government.
More than 37,000 teachers will strike next Tuesday, May 19.
The State Government has been in talks with the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) over a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which has expired.
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BBC: Strikes cripple French universities
Student protest in Bordeaux (2 April 2009)
France’s public universities are overcrowded and under-funded
Staff and students at almost a quarter of France’s state-run universities remain on strike over government plans to overhaul the higher education system.
The protests are now in their 14th week and may mean that some pupils, who have missed out on months of teaching, will have to miss their exams and repeat an entire academic year, the BBC’s Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says.
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Washington Post: Months-Long Strikes Close French Colleges, But Motive Is Unclear
MONTPELLIER, France — During months of campus protests here, the only serious violence erupted one evening when student activists got in a fight over which movie to show during the all-night occupation of a large classroom.
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Cyprus Mail: Teachers’ union to boycott exams over university admissions
TEACHERS’ union OELMEK announced yesterday that its members in secondary education will boycott the Modern Greek Pancyprian Exam, due to start in just a few weeks, in protest at the Education Ministry’s proposal to allocate three per cent of public university places to pupils holding international qualifications such as GCEs or the Baccalaureat.
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pr-inside.com: Zimbabwe teachers poised for nationwide strike
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – As they marked the annual labor day holiday, teachers said Friday their talks with the government to avert a nationwide strike over pay had not produced an agreement.
The education ministry «was not ready to offer anything» Thursday and a second meeting to include foreign donors and representatives of the United Nations children’s agency was scheduled Monday, said labor leader Raymond Majongwe.
The two main teachers organizations, the Zimbabwe Teachers Association and the Progressive Teachers Union led by Majongwe, have called the strike for May 5, the first day of the new school term. The two unions represent 60,000 members.
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Detroit Free Press: DPS to receive $169-million loan
It’ll keep the district afloat, Bobb says
Detroit Public Schools will get a $169-million loan that will give the district the money it needs to stay afloat through the summer, Robert Bobb, the district’s emergency financial manager, announced Friday.
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Los Angeles Times: L.A. Teachers Vote on Union Plan for for One-Day Strike
The union representing Los Angeles teachers is organizing for a possible one-day strike next month to protest looming layoffs. The work stoppage would have to be approved by a majority of teachers, who will be able to vote over a several-day period, starting today.
Last week, the Los Angeles Board of Education, by a 4-3 vote, approved a budget package that could result in more than 5,300 job losses, including about 3,500 teachers who lack tenure protection.
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The Malta Independent: Teachers’ strike on Thursday: Doors to discussions far from closed, minister affirms
Education Minister Dolores Cristina said yesterday that doors to discussions on the education reform are far from closed, contrary to what the president of the Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) implied at a teachers’ rally on Friday.
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The Gazette: Classes back at Montreal university after strike vote
MONTREAL — Classes will resume on Monday at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal after striking professors approved new contracts Friday.
Nearly 1,000 professors and full-time language instructors had been on strike since March 16.
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The Guardian: Turmoil at French universities could leave students facing missed year
French universities, paralysed by three months of student blockades and staff strikes, were warned by the government to resume teaching yesterday or risk damaging France’s image on the world stage.
Since February, various universities have been thrown into chaos by the biggest higher education revolt in modern French history, surpassing the protests of May 1968 in terms of the numbers of academic staff who have gone on strike.
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Jerusalem Post: The Open University… is closed for now
The Open University in Ra’anana – the country’s largest university in terms of enrollment – was indefinitely closed on Sunday, after the academic staff went on strike following a four month long labor dispute over working conditions.
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Haaretz: Open University closed by strike
Teaching staff at the Open University will begin an open-ended strike today, following a decision Thursday by its junior faculty union. This will be the first time an institution-wide strike has been held at the university, Israel?s largest in terms of student enrollment.?
This Day: Invigilation Resumes as Oyo Teachers Call-off Strike
Parents in Oyo State heaved a sigh of relief as the 37-day strike, by members of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) was suspended at the weekend. With the call-off, the teachers have resumed the invigilation of the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), which they avoided while the strike lingered.
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AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: Teachers Suspend Strike in Delta
Asaba — Delta State wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has suspended the four-week industrial action it called to press for improvement of the welfare of its members.
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