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
An account and tips from a fellow ELT teacher The TEFL Workers’ Union received this account from an online teacher who wanted to share their experience of dealing with a dodgy TEFL school. The issues covered – unclear pay rates, dodgy contracts, confusing and contradictory statements from management – will be all-too-familiar to many of … Read more