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Katarzyna Rakowska – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
In 2019, Poland experienced a massive teachers' strike that lasted three weeks. Although the strike had a great impact on many teachers, in the end, this three-week action failed to obtain any of its demands. Using the concepts of workers' associational power and union legitimacy, I argue that one of the reasons for the loss was a crisis of…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Foreign Countries, Unions, Elementary School Teachers
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Lluís Parcerisa; Antoni Verger – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Between 2011 and 2015, at the dawn of the global financial crisis, Spain went through severe austerity measures that led to social unrest and to the emergence of new expressions of collective action. In the educational field, teachers' unions and grassroots movements organised against the neoliberal and neoconservative policies promoted by the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Retrenchment
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Mihajla Gavin – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Teacher unions are working in challenging times. Building power is important for teacher unions to resist neoliberal reforms that have aimed to restructure school education and weaken collective organisation. Yet we have few understandings of the democratisation project that teacher unions have engaged in to build and renew internal power in this…
Descriptors: Unions, Teacher Strikes, Democracy, Teacher Participation
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Riley Collins – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Exploring the interplay between teacher solidarity and fragmentation in Arizona, this paper uses a critical bifocality lens to examine the experiences of six teacher organisers during the pandemic. This qualitative research centres teacher organisers' experience in an iterative analysis of policy and pandemic context, labour action, and teachers'…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Strikes, Activism
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Felipe Acuña; Rocío Fernández Ugalde – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This article examines the division within Chile's main teacher organisation caused by a dissident movement during the development of the new National Teaching Policy (PND), which occurred between the years 2014 and 2016. It focuses on the teachers' collective awakening and the internal logic of neoliberal teacher policies. Through interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes
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Carol Anne Spreen; Shari-Lee Carter – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This article will explain how a series of educator strikes in 2022 in Ghana led to increased awareness of and calls for tax justice and debt relief from a growing movement of public sector workers and civil society organisations. We chart how the issues and demands of teacher organisations and other public sector workers shifted and increased over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Teacher Strikes, Teacher Associations
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Julián Gindin; Mariano Casco; Pablo Ariel Becher – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Teacher unrest is an important research object in the literature on teacher unionism in Latin America. This article makes a novel contribution to this traditional topic, presenting statistical data on primary and secondary teacher strikes in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico from 2012 to 2022. This approach highlights important differences in strike…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Strikes, Unions, Elementary School Teachers
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Christian A. Bracho – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
The 'demand for justice' is a long-standing principle of Oaxaca's Sección 22 union chapter, which has led a teachers' movement since the 1970s that has evolved to meet changing social, political, and economic circumstances. Various researchers around the globe have increasingly linked notions of justice with education, exploring terms like social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Teacher Strikes, Social Justice
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Hania Sobhy – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Unions have played a decisive role in promoting democracy and social justice in Tunisia. In 2023, two teacher unions led a yearlong 'silent strike' of withholding student marks from administration. Based on interviews with 60 teachers, this article analyses teacher views on the unions and on ongoing protests. While unions are still considered the…
Descriptors: Unions, Teacher Strikes, Foreign Countries, Activism
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Rita Z. Nazeer-Ikeda; Sarah R. Asada – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This paper investigates the case of Singapore where there are teachers' unions but industrial actions are rare. It questions why and how has educator organising, steered by Singapore Teachers' Union, transformed? Our findings show that historical, political, and socio-economic dynamics have influenced the transformation of STU. For more than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Teacher Associations, Educational History