NASUWT Representatives

www.nasuwt.org.uk27Is there anything else I should know aboutthe NASUWT?You might like to know that, apart from being an important UK teachers’ union, the NASUWTis very active internationally.llThe NASUWT is represented on the European Executive of Education International (EI),the worldwide organisation for teacher unions and the European Trade Union Committeefor Education (ETUCE).The Union plays an active role in the European Work Hazards Network.International StrategyThe NASUWT is committed to supporting trade unions, the growth of democracy and thedevelopment of human rights across the world. There are four key countries adopted by theNASUWT National Executive to focus upon: Burma, Colombia, Iraq and Zimbabwe. Althoughthere are differences in approach for each country, the NASUWT is concerned with specificactivities to help develop teacher trade unions, defend human rights and promotedemocracy. The NASUWT National Executive has also prioritised the Middle East and NorthAfrican region in the light of the Arab Spring in 2011, with particular concerns over continuinghuman rights and trade union rights problems in some countries including Bahrain.The NASUWT’s international work is crucial in a context in which trade unions are underattack across the world, not only by non-democratic governments but also by manymultinational corporations. The international dimension to the NASUWT’s work has becomeparticularly acute now that UK governments have begun to cherry-pick the free marketpolicies and strategies of other countries, including misusing international evidence to backup their own ideological beliefs.For further up-to-date information on all of the Union’s international campaigns,please go to www.nasuwt.org.uk/International.Background Information