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Mexico: Guerrero teachers occupy electoral institute in protest at educational reform bill

Alan — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:40:59 +0000

Around 300 teachers started Sunday with the occupation and "liberation" of a motorway tollbooth near to Chilpancingo, giving free passage to motorists, a tactic also used in support of the 50 day long (and counting!) teachers' strike in the bordering state of Morelos, which is also in protest

Oaxacan teachers reach agreement with their union and local government

Alan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:19:07 +0000

The strike (previously reported on Libcom here and here), a contrast of almost blanket support from union members and almost blanket condemnation

Mexico: teachers' strike spreads up the Pacific coast while Oaxaca cautiously holds firm

Alan — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:50:13 +0000

On Friday 30th, the strike by the Oaxacan SNTE local (Sección 22, around whose strike coalesced the 2006 revolt) entered its 12th day, with more motorways blocked, more tollbooths closed down and more education buildings occupied throughout the state.

Mexico: Oaxacan teachers occupy secondary school

Alan — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:02:55 +0000

The occupation started as of yesterday (15 February) and is a preliminary attempt to reclaim all the schools organised by the 5,000-strong Sección 59, created by the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) Oaxacan state government and the SNTE leadership in Mexico City in an attempt to defeat the strikers in Sección 22 and thereby the 2006 uprising.

Central African Republic: teachers threaten strike

jef costello — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:23:18 +0000

Teachers are demanding the payment of three months salary before the new school term starts. The government last year made an undertaking to pay teachers' wages promptly, this included an agreement to pay three months wages before the new term begins this September.

First day of school cancelled in Palestine due to strikes

Ed — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:26:03 +0000

The teachers are protesting a government decision to reduce weekends to one day per week and end having Saturday as a day-off. In Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank, Ma'an's correspondent reported that the streets were teeming with students returning from school after finding their teachers absent from the classrooms.

Fiji: Public sector strikes grow amid death threats and intimidation

Asher — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:21:42 +0000

They are demanding the reversal of a 5% pay cut and the changing of the retirement age from 60 to 55, and an additional 10% pay rise. The pay cut and change in retirement age were announced shortly after the military government took power in a coup last December.

Ivory Coast: primary school teachers continue strike

jef costello — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:45:31 +0000

The basic demand of the teachers is an increase in the allowance that they are paid towards accomodation. The planned budget for this year gives teachers 30000 CFA Francs (£29:50) a year. Average monthly wages in Ivory Coast are estimated at CFA 26200, although due to civil problems all figures are unreliable.

Dividing and conquering the working class with drug testing: Hawaii teachers, coercion and a failure of working class solidarity

Comrade Motopu — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:36:15 +0000

In a historic blow to workers’ rights, and working class solidarity in Hawaii, the members of the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA) have been coerced into voting to relinquish basic rights to gain a needed pay raise. The contract they agreed to provides for 4% raises over each of the next two years, with other supplements amounting to an 11% pay raise over two years.

Nicolov, Ivan, 1900-1925

Steven. — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:25:49 +0000

One of the most popular speakers and polemicists of the Anarchist Communist Federation, Ivan Nicolov was born in 1900 in Radomir.