Articles from Spain
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 June 2017 The CETA’s “Investment Court System”: A Supreme Tribunal to Protect the Wealth of Foreign Nationals
Gus Van Harten
Imagine if governments proposed a supreme tribunal for the world. The tribunal would have the power to review anything countries can do in their sovereign role. It could review countries’ laws and regulations at any level. It could review the judgments of their highest courts.
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Union renewal and development 19 May 2017 Spain: educators reclaim labour rights
With a newly elected executive board, Spain’s FECCOO is looking ahead at four years under the banner of “transforming through education”, following its latest congress held last week in Madrid.
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Union growth 1 May 2017 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 March 2015 Spain’s universities go on strike against government reform
Public higher education is shutting down today in Spain, as teachers, support staff and students close ranks against the latest government’s reforms, arguing that they open the path to privatisation and hamper access for all.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 September 2014 Spain: youth trapped in NEET limbo
Fears of a lost generation are sinking in in Spain after the publication of the latest OECD report on Education shows that one out of four young people does neither work nor study.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 May 2014 "Education is not a commodity, education is a human right"
The Spanish teacher unions FETE-UGT, FECCOO and STES-I invited Spanish candidates for the European elections on 25 May 2014 to a panel discussion, asking them to make education a priority, their priority.
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Equity and inclusion 4 April 2014 Spain: Documentary on women teachers to be screened at World Women’s Conference
An extraordinary historical documentary on the commitment shown by female teachers in Spain whilst fighting illiteracy will be screened at the Second World Women’s Conference on 6 April in Dublin, Ireland. The award-winning “Las Maestras de la Republica”, which recounts the teachers’ battle for the rights of women and the...
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Equity and inclusion 26 February 2014 Spain: EI members committed to sexual and gender diversity
EI welcomes the collaboration agreement to work towards eradicating discrimination against LGBT people in learning and teaching environments signed by member organisations in Spain - FECCOO, STES, FETE-UGT - and the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals organisations (FELGTB).
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Union renewal and development 25 February 2014 FETE UGT won the Spanish cinema award with the documentary film “Las Maestras de la República”
"Las Maestras de la República” (women teachers in the Spanish Republic) film promoted by the Education Federation of Workers (FETE-UGT) and Transit Productions won the 2014 Goya Award for best documentary film.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 December 2013 Spain unites for quality public education
Thousands of Spanish people took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday, 30 November, to protest at education cuts. Organised by the Platform for Public Education, the protestors also demanded the suspension of the recently approved reform, the Organic Law for the Improvement of Education Quality (LOMCE), better known as...
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 October 2013 Spain: Widespread support for education strike
Spain’s education unions witnessed a successful general education strike on 24 October – the unions involved were EI’s affiliates, CCOO, FETE-UGT and STEs.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2013 Spain: Strike called to confront savage cuts
The Plataforma Estatal por la Escuela Pública (State Platform for Public Education), an umbrella group of trade unions and civil society organisations, has called a general education strike, for every level, on 24 October. An increase in pupil-teacher ratios, in contact hours, job losses, and budget cuts in areas as...
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 September 2013 Closing Conference on Healthy and Safe Workplaces in the Crisis
The closing conference of the ETUCE Project “Teacher Trade Unions in Solidarity for Healthy and Safe Workplaces in the Economic Crisis” will be held in Madrid on October 10-11. Representatives from national teacher unions, researchers, representatives of the education employers and students’ unions will gather to discuss how to promote...
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 September 2013 Spain: Complaint against reforms sent to European Commission
One of EI’s affiliates in Spain, the Federación de Enseñanza de CCOO (FECCOO), has complained to the European Commission about the text of the forthcoming Organic Law for the Improvement of Education Quality (LOMCE).
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 May 2013 Spain: Public education strike over education cuts and reforms
The Plataforma Estatal por la Escuela Pública (State Platform for Public Education) has called for a strike on 9 May at every level of education in Spain. The platform is made up of EI’s affiliated trade unions - FECCOO, FETE-UGT, STEs and CSI-CSIF - as well as student organisations and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 February 2013 Spain: Educational reforms divisive as unemployment rises
Six million people are unemployed in Spain, according to the latest official data, which paints a bleak picture about the state of the country. One-third do not receive any unemployment benefit and in almost two million households, each family member is unemployed. Twenty seven per cent of the population is...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 January 2013 Spain: FECCOO elects new General Secretary
Francisco García Suárez was elected as the new General Secretary of the CCOO’s Education Federation (FECCOO) at the closing session of its 11th Congress held in January in Madrid. José Campos, the former FECCOO General Secretary and member of EI’s Executive Board, will now become a member of the executive...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 October 2012 Spain: Unprecedented attack on union representation
On the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, EI's affiliates in Spain issued a joint statement expressing their indignation at the central government’s attack on the teaching profession in particular and on public education in general.
Spain: Unprecedented attack on union representation