Daily Express: TEACHERS MAY STRIKE IN FIGHT TO AXE THE SATS
TEACHERS moved a step closer to strike action yesterday when union bosses revealed it is “extremely likely” they will vote to boycott Sats testing.
The National Union of Teachers wants the tests for children aged seven and 11 scrapped because they say they are damaging to pupils and demean staff.
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Ma’an News Agency: Nablus teachers strike after colleague arrested for beating pupil
Nablus – Ma’an – Following the arrest of a Nablus teacher for beating one of his pupils, teachers at the Al-Kendi school have announced a strike starting Sunday as an act of protest.
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This Day: NUT Suspends Strike in Sokoto
Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) Sokoto State chapter has announced the suspension of a three day strike embarked by primary school teachers on Wednesday which has paralyzed academic activities in the state.
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The Punch: TSS: Oyo teachers call off 37-day-old strike
The leadership of the Oyo State wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers has suspended its 37-day-old industrial action following an agreement reached with the state government on the implementation of the new salary structure.
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Tucson Citizen: The big debate: Layoff notices at TUSD
‘I do not understand why teachers have not yet stormed the state capitol. They should be . . . throwing rocks through the windows to get (Gov.) Jan Brewer’s attention.’ – Franklin
The story: Anticipating a large cut in funding from our deficit-plagued state, Tucson Unified School District says it will notify 560 employees, most of them untenured teachers, that they might be laid off at the end of the school year. Some of the employees likely will be called back to work, but many won’t.
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IRIN News: NIGER: Teacher strike threatens to reverse MDG gains
NIAMEY, 26 March 2009 (IRIN) – An ongoing three-month strike by 37,000 contract teachers in Niger threatens recent gains toward meeting the country’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of providing universal primary education, according to union leaders.
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Daily Sun: Salary: Delta NUT vows to sustain strike
In spite of assurances by the Delta State Education Commissioner, Dr. (Mrs.) Elizabeth Uvo- Gardner that the strike action by teachers in the state would soon be called off as government has commenced the desk payment of the teachers’ salaries which is a major point in the dispute, there are indications that the two-week-old strike action embarked upon by the teachers would not be called off.
This is coming on the heels of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Delta State chapter vowing to sustain the strike until their February 2009 salary is paid.
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World University News: FRANCE: Strikes continue despite teacher-training concession
Striking lecturers and researchers are continuing their eight-week stoppage, despite a further concession by Education Minister Xavier Darcos over teacher-training reform. The biggest higher education union also rejected an amended decree modifying academics’ job status at a meeting with Higher Education and Research Minister Valérie Pécresse.
Up to 30,000 protesting lecturers, researchers and students – joined by two university presidents – demonstrated on Tuesday in Paris and other major towns, while during the week individual institutions continued organising protest actions such as holding lectures in public places, local demonstrations and boycotting administrative duties.
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Green Left: France: General strike shakes government
21 March 2009
On March 19, record numbers of people took to the streets as part of a general strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s anti-worker economic policies, a British Guardian article said the following day.
The demonstrations, involving more than 3 million people, followed a general strike called by the union movement on January 29, which involved 2.4 million workers.
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Press Association: France hit by national strike
More than a million people have marched in cities and towns across France to back calls for President Nicolas Sarkozy to do more to alleviate the economic crisis.
Police estimated that 1.2m supported the action, with nearly 100,000 marching through Paris, while trade union organisers claimed up to three million attended 200 rallies nationwide.
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International Herald Tribune: France shifts from striking to marching
PARIS: French strikes aren’t what they used to be.
In December 1995 and November 2007, unions brought all transportation to a standstill across the country for more than a week. Thursday, in a one-day strike by the same eight unions, metros in Paris and Marseille ran normally, most Air France-KLM Group flights took off on time, and fewer people struck at French schools and government offices than in previous actions.
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IRIN News: GUINEA-BISSAU: Teachers strike over non-pay; Children have missed four months of schooling in the 2008-09 academic year
BISSAU, 20 March 2009 (IRIN) – Intermittent teacher strikes that have disrupted the school year since October 2008 are on again as most of the country’s teachers went on strike on 19 March over salary arrears, according to the Union of Teachers.
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The Zimbabwe Telegraph: Teachers threaten return to strike
Zimbabwe cannot guarantee teachers will be paid this month, the new government’s education minister said triggering a call for another teachers strike which can make it harder to get Zimbabwe schools working again.
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The New York Times: Workers Protest Across France
PARIS — France’s airports, trains and utilities were hit by work stoppages on Thursday, as unions mobilized against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s economic policies and his government’s response to the global recession.
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Green Left: Guadeloupe: General strike scores victory, spreads to other colonies
The general strike in the French Caribbean colony of Guadeloupe, which began on January 20, ended March 4, when an accord was signed between the Collective Against Super-Exploitation (LKP) strike collective and the local governments, the employers’ federation and the French government.
The agreement granted the strikers their top 20 immediate demands and provided for continued negotiations on the remaining 126 mid-term and long-term demands. The LKP is a coalition of 49 unions and grassroots organisations.
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BBC: Strikes plan for trainers teacher
Staff plan to strike at a school that refused to reinstate a teacher it sacked for wearing trainers in class.
Adrian Swain was fired for refusing to follow an unofficial staff dress code at St Paul’s Way Community School in Tower Hamlets in east London.
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RTE News: Teachers to stage one-day strike
Friday, 13 March 2009 22:18
The three main teaching unions have voted to join other unions and take strike action on 30 March, closing thousands of schools.
The Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, the Irish National Teachers Organisation and the Teachers’ Union of Ireland decided to join the Irish Congress of Trade Unions day of action in protest at public sector cuts.
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This Day: Lagos Teachers Suspend Strike
The Lagos State wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has suspended the indefinite strike it embarked on to protest the state government’s non-implementation of the Teachers’ Salary Structure (TSS), as agreed by the Governors’ Forum and the union last year.
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Life on the Left: “First Victory” in Guadeloupe general strike; Movement spreads to other French colonies
The general strike in Guadeloupe ended March 4, when an Accord was signed between the LKP Strike Collective and the local governments, the employers’ federation and the French government that granted the strikers their top 20 immediate demands and provided for continued negotiations on the remaining 126 mid-term and long-term demands. The LKP, or Lihannaj Kont Pwofitasyon – Collective against super-exploitation, is a coalition of 49 unions and grassroots organizations.
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Toronto Star: Not worth a strike
The union representing Toronto’s public high school teachers wants us to believe education would suffer if their members had to supervise students in the hallways for an average of another 20 minutes a week.
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