European Trade Union Committee for Education

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• North Cyprus: KTÖS research on distance education
• ETUCE participates in Finnish Educa online event on education and COVID-19
• Montenegro: news of the impact of the pandemic on education
• Kosovo: SBASHK demands signing of Collective Agreement and recognition of teachers’ daily work
• France: education trade unions prepared to strike for decent salaries and quality learning environments
• 9th Congress of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine
• Malta: MUT orders a strike after the government denies their request for online teaching
• Hungary: ETUCE Member organisation calls for teachers to be among priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination
• UK: Education trade unions mobilised to denounce ‘chaotic’ reopening of schools, advising members not to return, prompting government’s U-turn

The Independent Trade Union of Primary Education Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an ETUCE member organisation, was campaigning to push authorities in Una-Sana Canton to follow a collective agreement they had already signed. The union was left with no option but a general strike. This forced the employer to back down and eventually comply with clauses of the collective agreement at the end of September 2019.

ETUCE stands with teachers and their union in this fight and continues to monitor the situation.