A series of pickets across the UK and Ireland, organised by the TEFL Workers’ Union, led to compensation for an English teacher who was dismissed abruptly from her role as an online teacher for the British Council last March. Lara, the teacher, was employed by the Impellam Group employment agency. Despite positive feedback during her … Read more
As part of our ongoing mission to make sure all TEFL workers know their rights and have the support they deserve at work, we’ll be running a “contract workshop” on November 12th in London. For an hour and half, union reps will be available to look over your contract, check to make sure everything is … Read more
The following statement was written by a member of the TEFL Workers’ Union steering committee. It broadly expresses the sentiments of the wider union’s activist base: an uncompromising commitment to working class solidarity, comradely criticism of the wider labour movement, and an unflinching opposition to all social structures of hierarchy, domination, and exploitation. The TEFL … Read more
Saturday October 15th, 4:00. Free. The TEFL Workers’ Union is proud to be hosting an online event with JPB Gerald, author of the forthcoming book Antisocial English Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness. We’ll be holding a zoom talk with JPB on the topic of alienation, exploitation, and racism within the English … Read more
Melissa Angarita Cardenas was a Sales Rep at SEDA College on Capel Street one ofthe largest English Language Schools in Dublin, Ireland. She challenged heremployer in 2020 and finally won a ruling for payment totalling over €40,000 byIreland’s ACAS, the Workplace Relations Commission or the WRC this month.The total awarded was €44,849. But she went … Read more
We all want and deserve decent working conditions. But the experience of far too many of us is precarious work, a lack of communication from management, and wages that mean we struggle to get a mortgage or start a family. On top of this, far too many of us only receive the statutory minimum when … Read more