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The following article on our unpredictable times came in through the TEFL Workers’ Union Facebook page and was written by a fellow English Language teacher. In it, Anthony provides a thought-provoking take on the furlough scheme. Perhaps instead of viewing…

November is Islamophobia awareness month, which highlights the threat of Islamophobic hate crimes and brings us together to show the positive contributions of British Muslims to society. The month also gives us an opportunity to highlight the issues Muslim members in the IWW may face in the workplace.

Demonstrating the IWW’s commitment to solidarity within and across workplaces, the teachers at the Overseas Teachers – in the middle of their own dispute over bogus self-employment – have sent words of solidarity and congratulations to the teachers at Language…

****PLEASE SHARE WIDELY**** ***DAY OF ACTION TO SUPPORT TEACHERS AT THE OVERSEAS TEACHER***   What: Teachers at The Overseas Teacher are taking the company to employment tribunal to challenge their self-employed status. We are asking supporters to email the bosses…

Welsh support worker in a homeless shelter documents how coronavirus has worsened conditions, and what can be achieved when workers organise.

    A second lockdown and this time some language schools remain open. ‘Places of education’, for example, are exempt so that’s the description EC English are currently opting for.  In other schools, there’s been talk of management seeking to…

TEFL WORKERS UNION (IWW) Press release 16th November 2020, London   Union takes online teaching school to tribunal in ‘gig economy’ battle ● Collective claim for teachers challenging self-employed status ● Teachers lost out on holiday pay, sick pay ●…

Andrea Gilbert, IWW BAME officer BAME workers have been disproportionately affected by the Coronavirus pandemic from deaths to redundancies. BAME workers are over represented in sectors hit worst by the economic crisis. The UK is set to go into the…

Andrea Gilbert, IWW BAME officer Migrant workers during the pandemic have had a lot of issues to deal with such as having to pay for health care, reduced wages and they’re more likely to be made redundant due to working…