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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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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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Sefton, Terry – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2022
Labour strife in the education sector in Ontario has repeatedly highlighted the precariousness of certain types of teaching and learning that are delivered under the catch-all designation extracurricular. This paper reviews education legislation in Ontario over the past 40 years that has impacted teachers' right to strike; examines how teacher…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Foreign Countries, Labor Demands, Educational Legislation
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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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Wagner, Josefine – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
In this paper, the 2019 Polish Teachers Strike (PTS), joined by 75 percent of all public schools and kindergartens for over three weeks, gives rise to an investigation in teacher professionalism that is grounded in local activism. Reading the Polish Teacher Strike (PTS) as a moment of social upheaval (Buchowski, 2017), I claim that the strike…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Activism, Teacher Strikes
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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
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Silman, Fatos; Güneyli, Ahmet; Vaiz, Osman; Karasel-Ayda, Nedime – SAGE Open, 2021
This study aims to examine the views of primary school teachers from North and South Cyprus on Teachers' Unions. Qualitative research and a comparative case study method were used for the study. Thirty-seven primary school teachers from North and South Cyprus participated in this study. The data were obtained through interviews and analyzed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Unions
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Karimi, Sirvan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The prevalence of labour disruptions in the Canadian education sector requires a comprehensive analysis of the adverse implications of strikes for stakeholders and Canadian society in general. Education is a kind of public good that generates positive externalities and strikes in Canadian universities and colleges engender negative externalities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Strikes, Arbitration, Higher Education
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Campolieti, Michele – Sociological Methods & Research, 2019
Using Canadian data from 1976 to 2014, I study the size distribution of strikes with three alternative measures of strike size: the number of workers on strike, strike duration in calendar days, and the number of person calendar days lost to a strike. I use a maximum likelihood framework that provides a way to estimate distributions, evaluate…
Descriptors: Strikes, Foreign Countries, Unions, Collective Bargaining
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Doughty, Howard A. – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2021
On October 16, 2017, over 12,000 faculty, librarians, and counsellors in 24 independent postsecondary colleges in Ontario, Canada went on strike for the fourth time since they organized in 1971 as members of the Civil Service Association of Ontario and won their first collective agreement the next year. Begun as an apolitical, self-consciously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Strikes, Collective Bargaining
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Sen, A. Fulya – Research in Education, 2019
This study examines the media representations of Turkey's educational labour union, Egitim-Sen. In so doing, it analyses the news coverage of the protests of Egitim-Sen against the education policies of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, structured by an Islamist political perspective. In this study, the content analysis has been…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Unions, News Reporting, Islam
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