African Governments Start Auctioning Education To Highest Bidders

Job stability is no longer guaranteed for millions of teachers, which is in violation of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation: Stability of employment and security of tenure in the profession are essential in the interests of education as well as that of the teacher and should be safe-guarded even when changes in the organisation of or within a school system are made; that there are attacks aimed at destroying the rights that workers and democrats have fought for, for over a century, at national and international level.

Comrades the right to strike is a cornerstone of democracy and social justice, and has been internationally recognised for more than 50 years. Approximately 90 countries have incorporated the right to strike in their national constitutions.  In recent months, the employers’ representatives at ILO have been challenging the very legal foundation of the right to strike and its domestication into national law, to the point of disrupting the functioning of the ILO’s supervisory mechanisms.