Articles
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20 April 2022 
Teacher Wage Bill Constraints: Perspectives from the Classroom
ResearchConstraints to the teacher wage bill blocks teacher recruitment and limits teacher salaries. This exacerbates teacher shortages and decreases the attractiveness of the profession, impeding the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4 on quality education for all.
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12 April 2022 
Malawi: Amendments to Labour Law curtail workers’ rights
NewsAccording to an amendment to Labour law No. 17 of 2021, workers in Malawi will only be paid for 3 days while on strike. Any worker who continues to strike after three days should be paid by their union.
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13 October 2021 
EI Joins AAI and PSI to launch Public Vs Austerity Report
News“IMF should listen to facts …they should listen to workers, civil society, students and other victims of their destructive policies”, Advised Dr Dennis Sinyolo recalling the devastating impact of IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPS) of the 1980’s and 90’s. This was during the East and Southern Africa segment of the...
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12 October 2021 
The public versus austerity: Why public sector wage bill constraints must end
ActionAid, Education International, Public Services International
ResearchThe world faces a series of interconnecting crises and responding to them will demand a complete disruption of business as usual. In the light of Covid-19, the growing debt crisis, rising inequality, gender injustice, and the climate crisis there is an urgent need to revisit the fundamental redistributive role of...
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12 October 2021 
New research: IMF imposed austerity slashes three million frontline workers from world’s most fragile education and health systems
NewsNew research by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine progress on health and education.
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18 June 2021 
EI Africa kickstarts capacity building for union leaders
NewsEducation International (EI) Africa kickstarted capacity building for its affiliates with a workshop for Southern Africa held virtually from 16th to 17th June 2021. The workshop gathered over 40 participants, mainly union representatives from Malawi (PSEUM and TUM), Zambia (ZNUT, SESTUZ and BETUZ), Namibia (NANTU), Eswatini (SNAT), Lesotho (LAT and...
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Cooperation Projects
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2022 - 2025 Quality early childhood education and decent working conditions for ECE teachers on the African continent
The project seeks mainly the mobilisation and recruitment of ECE personnel into teacher union in view of fighting for their labour rights and improving their professional standards.
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2021 - 2023 Promoting social dialogue to eradicate child labour and strengthen quality education provisions in Malawi
Development of a child labour free zone in Chigudu (Dowa district).
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2008 - 2027 African Women in Education Network (AWEN)
AWEN is the EI Women’s Network in Africa. It was launched in May 2008 with the overall goal to promote Gender Equality in unions to strengthen these unions for the achievement of Quality Education for All. AWEN constitutes a platform for women educators sector to influence the political will in...
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Affiliates
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Private Schools Employees Union of Malawi (PSEUM)
PSEUM
P/Bag A210Lilongwetel: +265 172.52.70fax: +265 172.52.70 -
Teachers' Union of Malawi
TUM
Aphunzitsi CentrePlot No. 37/14 & 15Private Bag 11Lilongwetel: +265 999459238tel: +265 1 727.301