Hugh Dellar is a teacher, course book writer, teacher trainer, and long time supporter of the TEFL Workers’ Union. He is an advocate for organising in your workplace as way to improve your contracts and protect yourself at work. Hear more about why you should join a union and get organised. Hugh knows that we … Read more
TEFL is great in many ways. Appreciative students, fun lessons, creating our own materials. But that’s not always matched by our working conditions. Zero-hours contracts. Wages that didn’t keep up with inflation long before the cost-of-living crisis. We’re often forced to leave the industry when we want to start a family or get a mortgage. … Read more
In Summer 2019, the teachers at a central London school were facing some difficulties at work. Difficulties that we as TEFL teachers are all familiar with. There had been no pay rise in line with inflation, they were on zero-hours contracts and had only one sick day per year. Their first port of call was … Read more