ELT Unions Bringing ‘Online’ In Line
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
3y ago
The UK-based TEFL Workers’ Union is pushing back against probably illegal actions by employers in an app-based English Language Teaching workplace (yeah they exist now) right now. EL Gazette runs a story about it here: https://www.elgazette.com/online-teflers-challenge-self-employed-status-as-union-membership-grows/. And it should make you smile. Tame the beast. Bring your online employer into line. One reason is that articles like this show that young trade unionists are such good fighters. Two is that it is a real story which would have just been a headache for a worker but now it’s set to ..read more
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COVID job change? Be active in TEFL unions everywhere.
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
3y ago
So you’re thinking of maybe moving abroad. Moving abroad – possibly the most Irish working-class experience – is bouncing around in our lockdown lives. It came to mind here. Can you stay in ELT but avoid abusive employers and precarious contracts? It is totally possible. But at the moment it might seem more possible abroad. Remember: Ireland’s government works to keep employment standards for (and contributions from) its employing class VERY low. This places the considerable responsibilities that should be on those who profit from a business (only the owners) on the workers shoulders. Every da ..read more
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ClubClass Strike in Malta: Solidarity from Ireland
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
4y ago
We support striking teachers in any English language school and we wholeheartedly support the teachers going on strike for their ELT work in Malta at the ClubClass school on 6 July 2020. These teachers in Malta deserve the support of all the people working in ELT around the EU. Please share this article on their union’s website. Show your solidarity with your fellow teachers in the profession we have built for our schools, our students and ourselves. Send a message of solidarity and support. Striking is a very important part of being a teacher in private schools. Striking is legal and striking ..read more
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To the English Language Students Union: A Statement of Support
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
4y ago
Screen shot from the English Language Students’ Union of Ireland. ELT Advocacy Ireland wish to register our understanding and support for the difficulties of our students, almost all of whom have been caught between the differing expectations of the State and English language school owners. We endorse the English Language Students’ Union of Ireland Statement of Demands. It is unacceptable that foreign students have been cheated of the quality of face to face teaching for which they have paid and for which Ireland has previously earned its premier reputation as an unparalleled destination in a ..read more
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Include Teachers & Students in the English Language Education Working Group: Form letter for Oireachtas representatives
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
4y ago
The COVID19 Pandemic is the paramount threat to our society. Our collective action is needed to rally around efforts to preserve resources and lives. Unity, care, and inclusion are the answers in this crisis. This is why the persistent exclusion of teachers and students first noted in this press release 22 March 2020 from the week after the quarantine began is contrary to the spirit of building real solutions which include all, and it’s also dangerous. Exclusion in these times is dangerous. Safety ‘for some’ is dangerous. With only the owners represented from the industry’s side, the current f ..read more
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To the DOS in COVID-19: Don’t Teach.
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
4y ago
To the Directors of Studies and people Academic Management roles in ELT in Ireland: Don’t teach classes for your school’s students during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Don’t do your teachers work and put them out of work. Our only job is teaching. When you teach online classes so the boss can lay us off you make unemployment happen. As teachers working in a strange new context we actually need all that support and CPD but on some new stuff. Huge numbers of unpaid hours are happening because this new world is weird and changes are happening so frequently. We need support and response. You can’t give ..read more
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COVID-19 Initial Survey Questions
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
4y ago
If you were working in ELT in Ireland at the time of COVID-19 Crisis, please email a your answers to these questions to eltadvocacy at gmail.com. You don’t have to answer them all. We are just trying to get a fuzzy picture of the sector as it experienced by people involved in our sector. We are looking for about 10 responses from outside Dublin and within. Answers will not be shared without explicit permission asked and received. Responses will be compiled to shape further study and strategies. Thank you and stay safe ELT Advocacy Ireland Organisers ***** 1. What was your situatio ..read more
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Train to organise teachers into your union.
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
4y ago
Last year we ran a training session on how to organise your fellow teachers into your union. This training is open to all English Language Teachers and costs 10 euro. Details below: Introduction to Workplace Organising What: Training Day to help you organise your workplace When: Sunday 26th January, 10:00 – 6:00 (please arrive 9:45, snacks provided) Where: Jigsaw, 10 Belvedere Court, Mountjoy, Dublin 1 Cost: 10 Euros (no one turned away for lack of funds) Contacts: Tom and John ( eltadvocacy at gmail ) The Introduction to Workplace Organising training focuses on the ..read more
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From the first ELT picket in Ireland for 30 years
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
4y ago
When we first started ELT Advocacy Ireland, we learned as much as we could about ELT labour history… and we only learned about one strike in Dublin -and it was in the 1980s. Since then, despite all the trouble of the College Closure Crisis from 2014-15, there had never been a picket on an English Language Teaching organisation. 23 September 2019 marked a change. That Monday, after months of attempts to talk with management formally and informally, after simple demonstrations of solidarity, and after letters and pre-notified one-hour stoppages the Delfin teachers did the most serious thing ..read more
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‘Is anyone else fed up?’ Delfin says stop.
ELT Advocacy Ireland
by ELT ADVOCACY IRELAND
4y ago
One year on, these English Language Teachers have stopped work. This week one year ago at a staff meeting the teachers of Delfin were given some bad news by management. They all felt pretty despondent, but, that was just the way things were. Management left the staff room. Two teachers shuffled over and quietly closed the door. They turned around and asked ‘Is anyone else fed up with the way we’re treated? I’ve no idea what we can do about it but I’m sick of doing nothing’. Today, Monday 30 September 2019, they are standing up for themselves, and they’re standing up for T ..read more
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