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Myanmar Protesters Honor Slain Teacher Published March 7th, 2021 - 07:02 GMT
Myanmar migrants in Thailand shout slogans at a protest against the military coup in their home country, in front of the United Nations ESCAP building in Bangkok on March 7, 2021. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP
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Tin Nwe Yee, a 59-year-old teacher killed in anti-government protests in Myanmar
At least 60 people have been killed during weeks of protests in Myanmar as police have escalated a crackdown to try to quell anti-coup demonstrations.
Protesters denouncing the military junta had been quite festive and less tense until Feb. 28 when security forces killed 18 people in several cities, including the commercial city of Yangon.
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Nationwide strikes in France against Macron government’s criminal response to pandemic
Nationwide strikes took place in France on Thursday over the government’s herd immunity response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the spread of a new more transmissible variant, the Macron government refused a national lockdown. The strikers also protested against low wages, growing job insecurity and deteriorating working conditions. The strike call was made by the Stalinist CGT union, along with the FSU and Solidaires unions, but France’s largest union the CFDT was not involved.
Taking part were public sector workers, including civil servants, teachers, healthcare staff along with rail and other transport workers. Teachers held a one-day strike on January 26 for higher wages and resources. Rallies were planned in cities and towns across France including Paris, Nice, Marseille and Lyon. Students and other groups jo
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The Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) said it would withdraw service if the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) failed to finalise its conditions of service.
The Union said the inability of the Commission to conclude negotiations with it, following the Union’s engagement with the Commission in June 2019 on the Review of the Conditions of Service for Unionized Staff of the Public Universities which expired in 2008.
This was in a statement signed by Mr Mark Dankyira Korankye, the General Secretary of TEWU and Mr Ambrose Yao Kwadwodza, the National Chairman, TEWU and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra.
Senior staff members of UHAS join nationwide strike
JAN 27, 2021
The University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) branch of the Federation of University Senior Staff Association of Ghana have joined their colleagues across the country to embark on a strike in solidarity with demands by the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU).
This decision takes effect on Wednesday, January 27, 2021.
Though the leadership of TEWU called off the strike on 19
th January 2021, some of its members in some universities have called the bluff of their leadership.
The latest to join the strike action is the University of Health and Allied Sciences chapter of the senior staff members.