PSI Educational Support and Cultural Workers' Network Newsletter

Educational Support and Cultural Workers' Network August 2015 No Images? Click here

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PSI Educational Support and Cultural Workers' Network Newsletter In this first edition of the ESCW Newsletter, Bohee Choi tells her remarkable story and invites us to send ours too. For any questions or comments, mark.langevin@world-psi.org

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Tell your story campaign We know many of you work tirelessly for your students, communities and union. We want to hear about your efforts and highlight them in our work to ensure that policymakers at international, national and local levels appreciate our vital work and dedication to inclusive and equitable quality education for all.

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My story - Bohee Choi At first I felt I could not say "No when I was given unfair work instructions. But it soon got to the point where I could no longer stand this denial of my rights and dignity simply because I was female and precariously employed.

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An eye on UNESCO Last May, UNESCO convened the World Education Forum of 2015 in Incheon, Korea to develop a global consensus on how best to achieve  “inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all” by 2030.

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ESCW  Coordinating Committee Following the founding meeting of the ESCW Network in Buenos Aires in November 2014, the first ESCW Network Coordinating Committee meeting was held in Geneva on 29 May 2015.

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World Bank Group and education It is essential that the ESCW Network play an active role in engaging the World Bank on educational issues and ensuring that its new gender strategy reflects an understanding of the evident relationships between gender and precarious work in education.

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ESCW Charter At its founding meeting held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2014, the ESCW Network adopted a Charter that outlines the Network's structure and objectives.

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PSI resolution Education support workers The 29th World Congress of Public Services International, held in Durban, South Africa, on 27-30 November 2012, adopted PSI's first resolution on education support workers.

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Message from the editor I would like to thank our sisters and brothers from CONTUA, AFT-USA for leading the way to the establishment of the ECSW Network, and all the ECSW Coordinating Committee members for their ongoing support.  mark.langevin@world-psi.org

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Please forward this newsletter to fellow education support and cultural workers. We especially encourage affiliate leaders and their rank and file to engage this special network, submit your stories and photos and make suggestions for our work in the coming years.  Public Services International is a global trade union federation representing 20 million working women and men who deliver vital public services in 150 countries. PSI champions human rights, advocates for social justice and promotes universal access to quality public services. PSI works with the United Nations system and in partnership with labour, civil society and other organisations.

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