The NASUWT has congratulated Ahmed Jassam Salih Al - Shiblawi of the Iraqi Teachers Union (ITU) who has been announced as the winner of Education International's Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade
Union Rights Award.
Not exact matches
Previous recipients of the International Solidarity
Award are: Aung San Suu Kyi (2012) Jalila al Salman (2013) The National Executive has adopted seven guiding principles for conferring the
Award to individuals whose contribution is to: (i) Defending human
rights (ii) Defending trade
union rights of teachers (iii) Working for quality education (iv) Demonstrating values of solidarity, equality and democracy (v) Educator / teacher (vi) Challenging violence, injustice, bigotry and hatred (vii) Working in countries outside the UK.
It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade
unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This
award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his
right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»
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In our bizarre newspeak world, the leader of a labor
union who tries to force kids to stay in their failing public schools gets a «human and civil
rights»
award and the Walton Foundation, which gives millions to help free those kids, is vilified.
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In 1984, The Cooper
Union awarded Frank Stanton, former chairman of CBS, a Doctor of Humane Letters, for «Dedicated, courageous advocacy of the constitutional
rights of broadcast journalism.»
Next Monday Environmental Progress President Michael Shellenberger (left) will give labor
union and Oswego leaders the «James Hansen Courage
Award,» named after climate scientist James Hansen (
right) for their tenacious and successful effort to save Fitzpatrick.
Though money was the main public focus of the lawyers» contract demands (a pay increase of 10 per cent over four years, the same conditions an arbitrator
awarded Quebec's 450 Crown counsel), Dion says the real driver that triggered the civil lawyers» strike on Oct. 24, 2016 — and fuelled their desire to stay out even after the LANEQ's war chest was depleted and many members were in dire personal financial straits — was their indignation over the government's refusal to grant them the same
right to a binding arbitration process in exchange for the
right to strike as they did to the province's 450 - member Crown attorneys»
union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales).
Gherson is an
award winning, leading independent London law firm specialising in UK immigration, corporate immigration, visas for sport, nationality, European
Union law, human
rights law and extradition.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal (in a recent case identified as United Food & Commercial Workers
Union, Local 1518 v. Sunrise Poultry Processors Ltd.) has confirmed that there is no general
right for grievors or witnesses to avoid having their names disclosed in labour arbitration
awards.
The
award aims to support and disseminate their work in an effort to safeguard and promote the freedom of press and the
right to information — both of which are under threat around the world but also inside the European
Union, which does not yet offer adequate legislative protection for such work.