Articles from United States of America
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Standards and working conditions 15 May 2021 “Education Support personnel are the glue that holds their schools together!”
Becky Marciante
Becky Marciante is a Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) at Mulberry Middle School in Mulberry, Florida (USA) and a member of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). She has worked for the Polk County Public School system since December 2015. As we prepare for celebrating World Education Support Personnel Day...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 April 2021 USA: Education unions join forces to build back better education system
With a new administration vowing to “build back better” from the public health, education, and economic crises of the Trump era, the two largest US educators’ unions, both Education International affiliates, have a shared agenda to ensure students and school communities receive the support they need for recovery and renewal.
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Democracy 17 February 2021 USA: Trade union joins call for a New Deal for Higher Education
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have launched a campaign calling for increased funding and reforms in public colleges and universities. The two organisations have partnered in this campaign because a crisis for higher education means a crisis for democracy.
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Democracy 20 January 2021 “Riot Backlash Hastens Moment of Truth for Internet Giants”
Aidan White
As President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated this week in the caged and militarised environment of the US Capitol, battle lines are being drawn in a concerted political attempt to regulate the power of the behemoths of the internet including Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The unregulated dominance of the online world...
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Union growth 8 January 2021 USA: Education unions condemn attack on democracy
The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have reacted to the 6 January’s assault in Washington DC, where rioters encouraged by President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building during a joint session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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Trade union rights are human rights 16 September 2020 US: AFT and RFK Human Rights launch human rights and democracy programme
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), working with RFK Human Rights will launch a programme to share lesson plans on human rights and democracy developed by classroom teachers at a webinar on 17 September. The webinar, “Defenders of Human Rights and Democracy in Your Community” will feature AFT President Randi...
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Equity and inclusion 28 August 2020 United States: AFT mobilises for 28 August March on Washington
Many thousands of people are marching in Washington, DC in the “Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks”. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), several other trade unions as well as civil rights and other civil society organisations are mobilising to bring attention to systemic racism, the need for...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 August 2020 "Support staff are the infrastructure of the world", by Lorretta Johnson.
Lorretta Johnson
During this pandemic, it has become very obvious who the essential workers are. Let me be clear. I am not criticizing mayors, university presidents or school superintendents. But amid the COVID-19 contagion, we would be nowhere without custodians, paraprofessionals, food service workers, administrative assistants and school bus drivers.
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Democracy 6 August 2020 United States: American Federation of Teachers holds convention in time of crisis
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in a convention held virtually, organised a series of discussions and adopted resolutions on education, trade union and policy issues. The convention endorsed Joe Biden for President by a vote of more than 90 per cent of delegates after an unprecedented, extensive membership consultation...
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 July 2020 USA: The voice of education professionals must be heard on safely reopening schools
Education International’s affiliates in the United States have reasserted the need for public authorities to listen to the voice of educators and their professional organisations when reopening schools and education institutions, and to deliver proper funding for the education sector.
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Union growth 6 July 2020 USA: The National Education Association holds virtual Representative Assembly
On 2 and 3 July, the National Education Association (NEA) of the United States held a virtual representative assembly with the participation of over 7,000 delegates. The theme of the assembly was “Our Democracy; Our Responsibility; Our time”.
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 June 2020 USA: Educators join in public outcry and demand justice for George Floyd
Addressing the Minneapolis Police Department, Minnesota’s elected officials, and the media, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Education Support Personnel demand justice after the death of George Floyd, a black citizen, while he was arrested by police officers. They are calling members and concerned citizens for solidarity by adding their...
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 May 2020 “A Plan to Safely Reopen America’s Schools and Communities”, by Randi Weingarten.
Randi Weingarten
The American Federation of Teachers has released a detailed road map that, in the absence of a COVID-19 vaccine, charts a path to safely and responsibly reopen school buildings and other institutions crucial to the well-being and economic vitality of our communities.
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Union growth 16 May 2020 “Education Support Professionals Need Protection Now!”, by Rae Nwosu.
Rae Nwosu
As president of the National Council of Education Support Professionals of the National Education Association (USA), I have the distinct honor of representing Education Support Professionals (ESPs) across the United States. We are crossing guards, bus drivers & bus monitors, paraeducators, secretaries, custodians, interpreters & translators, cafeteria workers, and everything...
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 May 2020 USA: Teacher union presents roadmap to safely reopen schools and communities
The American Federation of Teachers has launched a blueprint providing guidance for safely and responsibly reopening school buildings and other institutions and imagining a ‘new normal’ for public education, public health, and the economy in the age of COVID-19.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 April 2020 “We are one world”, by Lily Eskelsen García.
Lily Eskelsen García
As COVID-19 pandemic continues spreading around the world, educators are being called on to teach, reach and comfort their students and guide frantic parents. Stories shared by my EI colleagues fill me with hope. We are all in this together. We will get through this crisis together.
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Equity and inclusion 12 March 2020 Beijing +25: "Making the Promise of Beijing a Reality for Learners and for Education Sector Workers."
madeleine kennedy macfoy
Examples of the work done by Education International and its member organisations in different parts of the world since the Beijing Platform for Action was adopted in 1995, demonstrate the power of taking collective action to find collective solutions.
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 June 2019 “World Refugee Day: Stop Fencing out Democracy”, by David Edwards.
David Edwards
In her 1948 speech concluding the work of the nascent UN Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Democracy, freedom, human rights have come to have a definite meaning to the people of the world which we must not allow any nation to so change that they are made synonymous...
“World Refugee Day: Stop Fencing out Democracy”, by David Edwards.