World Federation of Teachers Unions

The World Federation of Teachers Unions known by its French initials FISE (Federation Internationale Syndicale de L'Enseignement) is an international trade union of educators affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.
History
The FISE was founded in Paris in July 1946 as a merger of the International Professional Secretariat of Education and l’Internationale des Travailleurs de l’Enseignement (ITE), with the support of the American Education Association.[1] It was reorganized in 1949 and became the first international trade union to become affiliated with the WFTU. It took this step right after the non-Communist unions had left the WFTU and the organization became completely dominated by communists.[2] In 1951 a group of unions split off and founded the International Federation of Free Teachers Unions.[3]
The FISE was the WFTU's "only true professional organization" and had a degree of independence. The FISE was able to work with non-Communist teachers groups through the Joint Committee of International Teachers Federations, or Comite d'Entente. In conjunction with these groups it helped publish a "Teachers Charter" in the mid 1950s [4] During the 1980s it cooperated with the International Federation of Teachers Unions (then affiliated with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions), the World Federation of Educators (affiliated with the World Confederation of Labour) and the World Federation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession.[5]
FISE is an organization with consultative status with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).[6] It has had its position within UNESCO since at least 1985.[7]
Organization
The organizations highest organ is the Statutory Conference, formerly called the World Conference of Teachers. Originally annual events, they were held at irregular intervals in the 1950s and now are constitutionally mandated to be held every four years.[8][9] Between meetings of this conference the organization is headed by an Administrative Committee which meets at least once a year.[10][11] Day to operations are directed by a Bureau which consists of the General Secretary, President, Vice-President and Secretariat, who are ex-officio members of the Administrative Committee.[12]
FISE was originally headquartered in Paris but was expelled in 1952 for "fifth column activities". It then moved to the Soviet sector of Vienna, but was expelled, again, in February 1956. The location of the headquarters immediately after the expulsion from Vienna is unclear, though FISEs' journal Teachers of the World was published from 10 Rue de Solférino, Paris 7ème.[13] In 1978 its headquarters is reported at Wilhelm Wolff Strasse 21, East Berlin 111.[14] It was at the same address in 1985.[15] Its current headquarters is at 6/6 Kalicharan Ghosh Road, 700 050, Kolkata, India.[16]
Conferences
The first six conferences were called "World Conferences of Teachers". They were denoted "Statutory Conferences" since at least 1985:[17][18]
- Paris, July 1946
- Brussels, 1947
- Budapest, 1948
- Warsaw, 1949
- Vienna, 1950
- Vienna, 1953
- Warsaw, August 1957
- 13th Statutory Conference Sofia, May 24-6, 1985
- 15th Statutory Conference New Delhi, March 9 to 11, 2007[19]
Membership
In August 1956 FISE was reported to have seven million members in 34 countries.[20] By the 1978 this had grown to over 16 million in 74 organizations in 50 countries.[21] In 1985 the group claimed 20 million members in 121 organizations in 82 countries.[22] As of 2009 FISE claimed over 26 million members within 156 trade unions in 40 countries including France, Greece, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Congo, Ethiopia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Togo, Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Bangladesh, China, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestinian territories, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and Yemen.[23]
Regional federations
By 1978 the FISE had two regional federations, the Confederation of American Teachers and the Federal of Arab Teachers Syndicates.[24] As of 2009 there are four regional affiliates - Confederation of American Educators, Federation of Teachers Organizations of Central America, Federation of Arab Teachers and the Federation of University Workers Unions of Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico[25]
National sections
In 1978 the following organizations were affiliated with FISE:[26]
Albania - Section "Enseignement" de l'Unione Professionnelle d'Albanie
Angola - Syndicat National des Enseignants Angolais
Austria - Union of Democratic Teachers
Bangladesh - Bangladesh College Teachers Association
Bangladesh - Bangladesh Teachers Association
Benin - Syndicat National des Enseignants des Ecoles Privees Laique du Benin
Benin - Syndicat National des Enseignants des Ecoles Ex-Catholiques du Benin
Bolivia - Union Progressista de Educadores de Bolivia
Bolivia - Federación Nacional de Maestros de Bolivia
Bulgaria - Union des Enseignants Bulgares
Central African Empire - Syndicat National des Enseignants Centrafricans
Chile - Sociedad Nacional de Profesores de Chile
China - Syndicat des Travailleurs des Ensiegnanats de Chine
Congo - Federation des Travailleurs des Ensiegnanats, de la Science, de l'Information et de la Culture
Costa Rica -
Cuba - Sinicato Nacional de Education y de las Ciencias
Cyprus - Organization of Technical School Teachers of Cyprus
Cyprus - Organization of Secondary School Teachers of Cyprus
Cyprus - Pan Cyprian Greek Teachers Organization - enseignant primaire
Czechoslovakia - Federation des Travailleurs des Ensiegnanats et de la Science de la Tchecoslovaquiae
Dominican Republic - Asociación Dominicana de Profesores
Egypt - Teacher's Syndicate of the Arab Republic of Egypt
El Salvador - Federation des Syndicats de Travailleurs des Universities d'Amerique Centrale
Ethiopia - Teachers Association of Ethiopia
France - Fédération de l'éducation nationale de la CGT
France - Syndicat National des Esiegnements Techniques et Professionnels (SNETP-CGT)
France - Syndicat National de la Recherche Scientifique de France (SNRS-CGT)
France - Syndicat National des Esiegnement Superieur
France - Syndicat des Personnels Educatif et Administratif de la FFMJC (FEN-CGT)
France - Syndicat National des Esiegnement Secondairs de France (associate)
East Germany - Syndicat de Ensiegnanat et de la Education de la RDA
Guatemala -
Guyana - Guyana Teacher's Association
Honduras - Federation des Syndicats de Travailleurs des Universities d'Amerique Centrale
Hungary - Syndicat des Ensiegnanats Hongrois
India - All Bengal Primary Teachers Association
India - All Bengal Teachers Association
India - All India College Principals Association
India - All India Federation of Ele/Pri School Teachers Associations
India - All India Federation of University and College Teachers' Organizations
India - All India School Teachers Federation
India - All Orissa Federation of Teachers Organizations
India - Andhra Pradesh Teacher's Union
India - Bengal Primary Teachers Association
India - Orissa Secondary School Teachers Association
India - Secondary Teachers' and Employees' Union
India - West Bengal College and University Teachers Association
India - West Bengal Headmasters Association
Iraq - Iraqi Teachers Union
Italy - Syndicat National de l'Ensiegnanats (CGIL) (associate)
North Korea - Union of Teachers and Cultural Workers of Korea
North Korea,
Japan - Union of Korean Teachers and School Clerks in Japan
Lebanon - Syndicat des Ensiegnanats des Ecoles Privees
Madagascar - Syndicat des Ensiegnanats des Madagascar
Mexico - Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación de Mexico
Mexico - Federacion de Asociaciones y Sindicados de Trabajadores al Servicio de Universidades e Institudos de Ensanzas Superior de Rep. Mexico
Mongolia - Syndicat des Travailleurs de la Culture de la Education de Mongolie
Nicaragua -
Palestine - General Union of Palestinian Teachers
Panama - Frente Reformista de Educadores Panamenos
Peru - Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores de la Education de Peru
Poland - Syndicat des Ensiegnanats Polonais
Romania - Union des Syndicats des l'Ensiegnanats de la Science et de la Culture de Roumanie
Senegal - S.E.S Syndicat des Ensiegnanats du Senegal
Somalia - Union des Travailleurs des l'Ensiegnanats
Soviet Union - Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Ensiegnanats et de la Science de l'URSS
Sri Lanka - All Ceylon Union of Tamil Teachers
Sri Lanka - National Union of Teachers (Sri Lanka Jatika Guru Sangamaya)
Sri Lanka - National Union of Teachers (Private)
Sudan - Sudanese Federation of Teachers Trade Unions
Syria - Syndicat des Ensiegnants de la Republique Arabbe Syrienne
Turkey - Association de tous les Ensiegnants pour le Unite et la Solidarite
Upper Volta - Syndicat des Ensiegnants Africains de Haute Volta
Uruguay - Federacion Uraguaya de Docentes Universitarios del Uruguay
Uruguay - Federacion Uraguaya de Docentes y Administrativos de la Universidad del Trabajo
Venezuela - Asociación de Profesores de la Universidad de Carabobo
Vietnam - Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Ensiegment du Vietnam
South Yemen - Educational Professions Union
Publications
The FISE published a quarterly Teachers of the World in English, French and German with "separate" Latin American Spanish and Japanese editions. By the 1980s this publication carried a "pedagogical supplement" financed by UNESCO.[27][28] Another bulletin was published 8 times a year and was variously called Educators International Courier or International Teachers News. It was published in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese and Arabic.[29]
FISE still publishes Teachers of the World quarterly in English as well as the FISE Information Letter eight times a year in French, English, Spanish, Russian, German, Portuguese, Arabic.[30]
See also
References
- ↑ The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985. Prague; Published by the WTFU in cooperation with PRACE Czechoslovak Trade Unions 1985 p.152
- ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations p. 55
- ↑ Coldrick, A. Percy and Jones, Philip. The international directory of the trade union movement New York : Facts on File, [1978] p.198
- ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations] pp.55, 56, 58
- ↑ The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985 p.152
- ↑ UNESCO profile
- ↑ The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985 p.152
- ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations] pp. 57-8
- ↑ Constitution
- ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations] p. 56
- ↑ Constitution
- ↑ Constitution
- ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations] p. 55
- ↑ Coldrick and Jones p.199
- ↑ The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985 p.152
- ↑ UNESCO profile
- ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations] pp.55, 57-8
- ↑ The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985 p.152
- ↑ Informative note about the XVI Statutory Conference of the World Federation of Teacher’s Unions which is about to take place on March 9 to 11, 2007 in New Delhi
- ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations] p. 56
- ↑ Coldrick and Jones p.199
- ↑ The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985 p.152
- ↑ UNESCO profile
- ↑ Coldrick and Jones p.199
- ↑ UNESCO profile
- ↑ Coldrick and Jones pp.200-2
- ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations] p. 56
- ↑ The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985 p.152
- ↑ Coldrick and Jones p.199
- ↑ UNESCO profile