
How can the ELT sector become fairer for all teachers?
British Council - Teaching English
The Importance of a Union in Language Schools
The strength of the union is probably needed if workers' representation is to become a permanent feature in reality for the language schools. A workforce should look at everything but first step it should be to try and establish regular meetings, teachers meetings, teachers and staff meetings and the election of representatives. There are plenty of strategies and mechanisms on offer that you could try out short of actually trying to establish a union and formal recognition. We've had cases of people turning up in staff rooms, wearing the same colour as a kind of symbolic expression of the strength of feeling over an issue. Of course at the age of the internet there are things like Twitter storms, how much you could do in a country will depend