COMPOSITE C
COMPOSITE RESOLUTION OF RESOLUTIONS 2.3
AND 2.5 ON QUALITY TERMS AND CONDITIONS
OF EMPLOYMENT AND THE CAMPAIGN FOR
DECENT WORK
The 7th Education International (EI) World Congress meeting in Ottawa, Canada, from
21nd to 26th July 2015:
1.
Recognizing that providing quality education remains a challenge for national governments;
2.
Regretting that Education for All (EFA) was not achieved, despite improvements in access, due
to a lack of political will to challenge the impediments to the participation of some children and,
especially girls, in education in some countries and the lack of political commitment generally to
providing the necessary funding for training and employment of qualified teachers and the
provision of the necessary infrastructure;
3.
Denouncing the fact that the global preoccupation with measuring education outcomes is not
supporting the provision of quality education and that it fails to take the context in which
education occurs into account;
4. Expressing concern with the deterioration in salaries and conditions of employment for
education personnel generally, particularly in comparison to professionals with comparable skill
sets, and the impact of commercialisation and privatisation on the employment conditions of
teachers, researchers and education support personnel;
5. Notes with concern the growing use and exploitation of contingent faculty, fixed-term,
precarious and casualised teachers, researchers and education support personnel;
6. Notes that fixed-term and other precarious forms of work are becoming more widespread in
other sectors of the economy and therefore recognises the potential for new allies in combatting
the casualisation of the workforce;
7. Insisting that teaching be an attractive high-status career choice, and must be sufficiently
attractive, in terms of salaries, professional autonomy, career advancement, healthcare and
pension benefits, and conditions of employment, to encourage and retain high calibre entrants
into the profession;
8. Reaffirms the importance of EI’s policy on the rights of fixed-term teaching personnel, including
the 2007 World Congress resolution on fixed-term higher education teaching personnel.
9.
Acknowledging that qualified teacher shortages are a fundamental problem to achieving
quality education for all;
10. Reiterating the view that qualified teacher shortages cannot be addressed unless governments
and the international community take decisive steps to facilitate access to the necessary
qualifications to improve teachers’ status and terms and conditions of employment;
11. Instructs the Executive Board to:
a) Build members’ capacity to address personnel management issues, develop proposals and
engage in social dialogue with governments and employers to improve the status of teachers
and education support personnel;
b) Develop a policy brief on Employment in Education, through a consultative process with
member organisations, for presentation to the next EI World Congress;
c) Create a digital open network for member organisations to discuss and share good practices
and tools to which members can refer when engaging in negotiation with employers;
d) Monitor the use of fixed-term contracts as part of EI’s work on ‘Quality terms and conditions
of employment’ and to highlight good practice by affiliates in reducing precarious
employment through lobbying, campaigning, organising and collective bargaining;
e) Work with global union federations and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
in raising the profile of precarious employment as a key impediment to the campaign for
decent work;
f)
Consider co-ordinated campaigns and actions on World Teachers Day (5 October) and the
World Day for Decent Work (October 7).
RESOLUTION 2.3 (see Composite C)
QUALITY TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Proposed by the Executive Board
Original language: English
The 7th Education International (EI) World Congress meeting in Ottawa, Canada, from
22nd to 26th July 2015:
1.
Recognizing that providing quality education remains a challenge for national governments;
2.
Regretting that Education for All (EFA) was not achieved, despite improvements in access, due
to a lack of political will to challenge the impediments to the participation of some children and,
especially girls, in education in some countries and the lack of political commitment generally to
providing the necessary funding for training and employment of qualified teachers and the
provision of the necessary infrastructure;
3.
Denouncing the fact that the global preoccupation with measuring education outcomes is not
supporting the provision of quality education and that it fails to take the context in which
education occurs into account;
4.
Expressing concern with the deterioration in salaries and conditions of employment for
education personnel generally, particularly in comparison to professionals with comparable skill
sets, and the impact of commercialisation and privatisation on the employment conditions of
teachers and education support personnel;
5.
Insisting that teaching be an attractive high-status career choice, and must be sufficiently
attractive, in terms of salaries, career advancement, healthcare and pension benefits, and
conditions of employment, to encourage and retain high calibre entrants into the profession;
6.
Acknowledging that qualified teacher shortages are a fundamental problem to achieving
quality education for all;
7.
Reiterating the view that qualified teacher shortages cannot be addressed unless governments
and the international community take decisive steps to improve teachers’ status and terms and
conditions of employment;
8.
Instructs the Executive Board to:
a. Build members’ capacity to address human resources management issues, develop proposals
and engage in social dialogue with governments and employers to improve the status of
teachers and education support personnel;
b. Develop a policy brief on Employment in Education, through a consultative process with
member organisations, for presentation to the next EI World Congress.
c.
Create a digital open network for member organisations to discuss and share good practices
and tools to which members can refer when engaging in negotiation with employers;
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS:
(a) In paragraph 4 insert “researchers” between the words “teachers” and “and education support
personnel”;
Proposed: GEW/Germany
(a) In paragraph number 5 insert “professional autonomy,” after “in terms of salaries,”
Proposed: Aob/Netherlands
(b) In paragraph 7 after the words “decisive steps” insert “to facilitate access to the necessary
qualifications”,
Proposed: SNUipp-FSU/France
(c) In paragraph 8 a in the first line, replace “human resource management” by “personnel
management”.
Proposed: STESi/Spain
RESOLUTION 2.5 (see Composite C)
PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT AND THE CAMPAIGN FOR DECENT
WORK
Proposed by: UCU/United Kingdom and CAUT/Canada
Original language: English
The Seventh World Congress of Education International meeting in Ottawa, Canada, from
22nd to 26th July 2015:
1.
Notes with concern the growing use and exploitation of contingent faculty, fixed-term,
precarious and casualised teachers, researchers and education support personnel.
2.
Reaffirms the importance of EI’s policy on the rights of fixed-term teaching personnel, including
the 2007 World Congress resolution on fixed-term higher education teaching personnel.
3.
Notes that fixed-term and other precarious forms of work are becoming more widespread in
other sectors of the economy and therefore recognises the potential for new allies in
combatting the casualisation of the workforce.
Congress mandates the Executive Board:
4.
To monitor the use of fixed-term contracts as part of EI’s work on ‘Quality terms and conditions
of employment’ and to highlight good practice by affiliates in reducing precarious employment
through lobbying, campaigning, organising and collective bargaining.
5.
To work with global union federations and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in
raising the profile of precarious employment as a key impediment to the campaign for decent
work.
6.
To consider co-ordinated campaigns and actions on World Teachers Day (5 October) and the
World Day for Decent Work (October 7).