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▶ AFFILIATE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
▷ AMERICAS:
◽️ COLOMBIA: ESCUELA NACIONAL SINDICAL (ENS)
''La Escuela Nacional Sindical va a acompañar este curso y tiene el gusto de invitarte a participar."
◽️ USA: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND LABOUR RELATIONS (SMLR) "Awards and Honors"
▷ EUROPE:
◽️ UGT PORTUGAL
Entrevista à Presidente da UGT Portugal Lucinda Dâmaso "Temos de dizer aos jovens que estar sindicalizado é estar protegido.''
◽️DENMARK: AOF DANMARK
"AOF: Overvej ekspertgruppens anbefalinger grundigt"
▷ GLOBAL:
◽️SOUTH AFRICA - GLOBAL: "WORKERS WORLD MEDIA PRODUCTIONS (WWMP) and INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT WORKERS' FEDERATION (ITF) partner to Workers’ World Labour Show television on Cabotage, Dockers Section and ITF Seafarers’ Section conferences in Cape Town.
▷ AFRICA:
◽️ SOUTH AFRICA: DITSELA visits Community House with Trade Union Practice Qualification learners
◽️ ZIMBABWE - SWEDEN - SOUTH AFRICA: SOLIDARITY VISIT: IFWEA’s Saliem Patel and Olof Palme International Center Intern Tajma Sisic visit affiliate and associate labour organisations in Zimbabwe
▷ ASIA
◽️SRI LANKA: INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
"ISD capacitated Sri Lankan Civil Society organizations on In-Country Documentation and Archiving""
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▶ SECRETARIAT NEWS:
IFWEA PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
▷ LAUNCH OF NEW IFWEA WEBSITE!
◽️ The new site is multilingual, and provides an Online Resource Centre for educators.
◽️ Please explore the website at www.ifwea.org ! Send us your feedback and/or share education materials
- contact us at ifweasecretariat@lrs.org.za
▷ FOUNDATION SKILLS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (FSSC) CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME
◽️ INDIA: Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)'s Women’s Leadership Course, and PAKISTAN: Labour Education Foundation (LEF)'s Gender Equity Course on IFWEA’s Online Labour Academy - leads to cross country online exchange
▷ YOUTH GLOBALISATION AWARENESS PROGRAMME (YGAP) - EDUCATOR PROFILES
◽️ INDONESIA: Ismail Rifa’i of Federasi Serikat Pekerja Metal Indonesia (FSPMI)
◽️ ZIMBABWE: Nqobizitha Nyakunu
▷ STUDY CIRCLES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (SCSC) PROGRAMME:
◽️NEPAL / INDIA: CLASS NEPAL’s Educator Goma Pandey facilities Women Leadership Course in Nepal on the Online Labour Academy
◽️ SOUTH AFRICA – KHAYELITSHA: Thandiwe Mandlevu of Lorna Mfolana Movement South Africa - facilitates young members with a Basic Sewing Skills study circle
▷ MAKING YOUR MARK PROJECT
◽️IRELAND: University of Limerick (UL) Engage “Limerick Be Heard” Press Release
◽️ SOUTH AFRICA "Cape Town Be Heard" Update
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Elise Bryant at the GLAE (left) and the Joe Hill Award winner Bev Grant with Janet Stecher (ight)
▶ LABOUR AND WORKERS' ART AND CULTURE
◽️USA – DC Labor Chorus and the Great Labor Arts Exchange (GLAE)
"INTERVIEW: Elise Bryant is the Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and founder of the DC Labor Chorus"
▶ OPINION
▷ GLOBAL LABOUR COLUMN
◽️ GLOBAL: "Labour rights indicators: a new resource for better understanding of labour rights in the world"
◽️ AUSTRALIA: "The Australian model of cross-jurisdictional supply chain regulation"
◽ CANADA: "The 2012 student movement in Quebec: fair shares, commodification and saucepans"
▷ RUSKIN COLLEGE
◽️UK - GLOBAL: "Education and social change in the era of radical opportunity and uncertainty"
▷ EQUAL TIMES
◽️UK - GLOBAL: "Securing indigenous rights through data"
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▶ SOLIDARITY IN ACTION: CAMPAIGNS - SIGN ONLINE!
◽️CAMBODIA: "Support abandoned workers in their struggle for lost wages and benefits
◽️CHINA: "COMPLICIT: Demand Apple and Samsung Protect Workers from being Poisoned"
◽️UK: "Deliveroo: Pay your workers in Brighton fairly!"
◽️USA: DISNEYLAND: "Pay your Anaheim workers fairly!"
▶ MULTIMEDIA
▷ LISTEN: ONLINE PODCASTS
◽️EdVoices - is Education International's podcast on education policy and practice, published bi-weekly in several languages (mainly English, French, and Spanish).
◽️Radio Labour - The goal of RadioLabour is to promote global communication between labour organizations.
▷ WATCH
LabourStart TV - daily labour videos from around the globe
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▶ AFFILIATE NEWS: HIGHLIGHTS
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◽️USA: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND LABOUR RELATIONS (SMLR) "Awards and Honors"
'The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) named Adrienne Eaton, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, a 2017 LERA Fellow in recognition of her research on union and worker participation in management decision-making; neutrality and card check agreements in union organizing; and other key labor issues.'
▶️ read more here
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◽️PORTUAL: UGT PORTUGAL Entrevista à Presidente da UGT Portugal Lucinda Dâmaso "Temos de dizer aos jovens que estar sindicalizado é estar protegido.'' / Interview with the president of the UGT Portugal Lucinda Dâmaso "We have to tell the young people that being unionized is being protected."
▶️ reia a entrevista na íntegra na nova revista da UGT - INFO UGT Faça download em http://bit.ly/2vVQ7aR
▶️ read the full interview in the new magazine UGT - INFO UGT download it at http://bit.ly/2vVQ7a
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◽️DENMARK: AOF DANMARK
"AOF: Overvej ekspertgruppens anbefalinger grundigt"
'DEBAT: Regeringen bør tænke sig grundigt om, før den kaster sig ud i det eksperiment, som ekspertudvalget foreslår med sine anbefalinger til, hvordan man får flere unge til at tage en ungdomsuddannelse, skriver AOF's direktør, John Meinert Jacobsen.'
▶️ www.altinget.dk/aof-overvej-ekspertgruppens-anbefalingerne-grundigt
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◽️ SOUTH AFRICA - GLOBAL: "WORKERS WORLD MEDIA PRODUCTIONS (WWMP) and INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT WORKERS' FEDERATION (ITF)
'The partnership in producing the special show with the ITF was wonderful since we were able to have international guests in studio. Moreover, they could share their international experiences and insights and link these to local concerns.' says Executive Producer and Director of WWMP Martin Jansen, and Sharon McKinnon Producer and Editor
▶️ read more and watch the two episodes here
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◽️ SOUTH AFRICA: DITSELA, visited Community House in Salt River, with the participants from their course Further Education and Training Certificate [FETC] in Trade Union Practice Qualification [TUPQ].
' Led by the DITSELA Western Cape Programme Co-ordinator Grischelda Hartman, the group explored the labour history heritage at Community House. Saliem Patel IFWEA’s programme manager gave an input on the history of the Trade Union Library, and then explained IFWEA’s programmes and activities with affiliates.'
▶️ read more about the DITSELA course here
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◽️ZIMBABWE - SWEDEN - SOUTH AFRICA: SOLIDARITY VISIT
'IFWEA’s Programme Manager Saliem Patel, along with Olof Palme International Center Intern Tajma Sisic visited Zimbabwe, to engage with new affiliate Patsime Trust, and associates including the Commercial Workers Union of Zimbabwe (CWUZ), Ishmael Nedziwe College of Labour Studies, Labour & Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ), Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA) and the Zimbabwe Domestic and Allied Workers Union (ZDAWU).'
▶️ read interviews here
▶️ watch the interviews on IFWEA's You Tube channel here
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◽️SRI LANKA: INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (ISD)
"ISD capacitated Sri Lankan Civil Society organizations on In-Country Documentation and Archiving"
'The ISD’s project on “Building Local Capacity for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka” which is funded by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience launched its first field program in April 2017. Transitional Justice initiatives of Colombia, Serbia, South Sudan and South Africa were discussed during the workshop. This made participants open up with country-specific and region-specific problems and challenges.'
▶️ read more here ▶️ watch the video clip (screenshot above) on the "Tea Plantation Workers' Museum and Archive" started by ISD in 2007 www.youtube.com/TeaWorkers
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▶ SECRETARIAT NEWS: IFWEA PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
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▷ FOUNDATION SKILLS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (FSSC) CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME
◽️ INDIA: Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)'s Women’s Leadership Course, and PAKISTAN: Labour Education Foundation (LEF)'s Gender Equity Course on IFWEA’s Online Labour Academy (OLA) - leads to cross country online exchange
The Indian Academy for Self Employed Women (IASEW) started their four day Women’s Leadership course on OLA in July, after the course was translated into Gujurati.
On the first day IASEW said on Facebook:
“This time online Women Leadership Course is in their mother tongue! Participants of third batch are charged up with the positive energy. More than 20 participants are enrolled in the course.”
▶️ join IASEW on Facebook www.facebook.com/profileIASEW#
This online and face to face education programme is led by Namrata Bali, director of IASEW in India. In Pakistan it is led by Khalid Mahmood, director of LEF.
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India and Pakistan views of the online exchange
pictures by IASEW and Khalid Mahmood
The leaders collaborated to facilitate an exchange between the IASEW. Find out more about the course activity, including the interactive online exchange between Indian and Pakistani participants on women’s rights.
▶️ read more here
▶️ read about Labour Education Foundation (LEF) Pakistan on their website www.lef.org.pk
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▷ YOUTH GLOBALISATION AWARENESS PROGRAMME (YGAP)
Educator Profile: INDONESIA
◽️Ismail Rifa’i of Federasi Serikat Pekerja Metal Indonesia (FSPMI)
Ismail Rafa’i attended YGAP in 2016, he is an electronics worker and educator in the metal union federation.
“Education for workers is essential so that workers can gain knowledge of their position in the social, political and economic structures. This is so that workers can develop themselves in order to achieve wellbeing for themselves and their families.” ▶️ read more here
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Educator Profile: ZIMBABWE
◽️ Nqobizitha Nyakunu
Nqobizitha Nyakunu was selected by Patsime Trust, IFWEA affiliate in Zimbabwe where he had been working, to attend YGAP in 2016. He reflects on the experience and says:
"Education is important mitigating most of the challenges faced in life and helps open doors to a lot of opportunities for better prospects... there is a boost in creativity, innovation and development of analytical skills."
▶️ read more here
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▷ STUDY CIRCLES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE PROGRAMME
◽️NEPAL / INDIA: CLASS NEPAL’s Educator Goma Pandey facilities Women's Leadership Course in Nepal, run by SEWA in India – using the Online Labour Academy (OLA).
Educator Goma Pandey (YGAP 2016 graduate pictured above, second from left sitting), taught participants in Nepal using the study circles methodology in face to face and online sessions.
She says: “The participants are so comfortable with IT now. The course of SEWA has inspired us to make a course in Nepal as well on Women’s Leadership, adopting some of the references we found the Indian course."
▶️ read more
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◽️ SOUTH AFRICA – KHAYELITSHA:
Thandiwe Mandlevu of Lorna Mfolana Movement South Africa - facilitates young members with a Basic Sewing Skills study circle
Thandiwe Mandlevu (pictured above centre busy with a sewing session) recruited young members of the organisation to join the study circle, to share and learn basic sewing skills. She says: “I learnt how to organize and facilitate. I also learnt about creating a learning environment and structure. To share knowledge through running a learning event”.
▶️ read more about the study circle here
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▷ MAKING YOUR MARK - YOUTH HUMAN RIGHTS AMBASSADORS
SOUTH AFRICA "Cape Town Be Heard"
◽️ Update
Youth participants have completed their education programme, attended Youth Parliament in the province and are now involved in facilitating study circles in their communities.
▶️ read more here
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IRELAND - Limerick Be Heard
◽️ University of Limerick (UL) Engage “Limerick Be Heard” Press Release
“Limerick Be Heard, a local group whose aim is to increase participation in politics, hosted a two day conference in Limerick recently, in which representatives from a number of international youth and higher education organisations took part.
Among the institutions involved were representatives from Sweden’s Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund (National Worker’s Educational Association), the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, the South African based International Federation of Educational Associations (IFWEA), the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA and the youth organisation, ZAK Malta."
▶️ read more here
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