News - European Trade Union Committee for Education

Published: 08 April 2015

Germany: Renewed warning strikes in education on the road to next round of negotiations

In the battle for a satisfactory collective agreement, ETUCE's German member organisations GEW has called for renewed warning strikes in many...

Published: 08 April 2015

UK teachers warn next government with potential strikes

On 6 April 2015, at their annual conference the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the UK ETUCE member, voted for a possible strike after the UK...

Published: 30 March 2015

ESSDE Higher Education & Research Working Group produces report and declaration in support of early career researchers

At the ETUCE Committee meeting on 19 March 2015, ETUCE presented the final report and a declaration following the recently finalised project on...

Published: 30 March 2015

European Director addresses Congress of Education and Science Employees Union of Russia

The Congress defined the statutory tasks for the next five years in which the trade union seeks to achieve the enhancement of the social and...

Published: 30 March 2015

Public Hearing: Situation of Fundamental Rights in the European Union

On 30 March, the Committee for Civil Liberties and Justice Affairs of the European Parliament will hold a public hearing on the situation of...

Published: 27 March 2015

OAJ: Finland is not giving up school subjects

News about Finland "scrapping the school subjects" have been spreading around the world for the last couple of days. ETUCE asked the Finnish...

Published: 26 March 2015

Germany: Warnings strikes continue as labour disputes have not been solved

During the last days, many thousands of teachers and educators in different German towns have laid down their work again and joined the warning...

Published: 24 March 2015

OECD Paper: Boosting Productivity in Russia, Skills, Education and Innovation

On 5 March 2015, the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published a working paper on Boosting Productivity in Russia,...

Published: 24 March 2015

ETUCE publishes survey report on social dialogue capacity building

At the ETUCE Committee meeting on 19 March 2015, ETUCE presented its final survey report following recent project "Promoting the potentials of the...

Published: 24 March 2015

Strike in strong defence of Spanish public education system

"The Plataforma Estatal por la Escuela Pública", an alliance of organisations aiming for the protection of the public education system in Spain,...

Published: 24 March 2015

Spring Meeting of the ETUCE Committee, Brussels

The members of the ETUCE Committee convened on 18 to 19 March 2015, situated between the ETUCE mid-term conference and in the run-up to the EI World...

Published: 20 March 2015

ETUCE’s Standing Committee for Equality: "Social Dialogue and Equal Opportunities”

Delegates from ETUCE member organisations meet every year, to discuss important equal opportunity issues. At this year's Standing Committee meeting,...