Business English Workers Unite (@beworkersunite) 's Twitter Profile
Business English Workers Unite

@beworkersunite

Anon BE teachers. For a fair deal in business English & ELT. Against teacher precarity & exploitation. We are stronger together & when we speak truth to power.

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Angry Education Workers (@angryedworkers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Call for submissions! If you work in any role in any sector of the #education industry, we would love to give you a platform to express yourself. That includes already published articles you give us permission to host and amplify Send pieces to [email protected]

Call for submissions! If you work in any role in any sector of the #education industry, we would love to give you a platform to express yourself. That includes already published articles you give us permission to host and amplify

Send pieces to angryeducationworkers@gmail.com
Business English Workers Unite (@beworkersunite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Full solidarity with Learnship's exploited teachers and FAU Berlin and its members who are bravely taking a stand. Please share FAU Berlin's press statement far and wide: berlin.fau.org/presse/pressem… LinkedIn (copy of original): linkedin.com/pulse/unionize… #tefl #elt #iatefl

Joe Seaton (@atriskteachers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tim Walker British Council Sadly this is true. The British Council are not supporting the teachers they recruited & then abandoned. Those still stuck in 🇦🇫 urgently need support to get visas. Those stuck in hotels in🇵🇰 need access to healthcare & education. The BC needs to step up #AtRiskTeachers

paulwalsh@josipa74 (@josipa74) 's Twitter Profile Photo

@fauberlin reports that "conditions at #Learnship have been worsening " and "this international company continues a misguided effort to reduce compensation for teachers who use its site all over the world to the lowest common denominator" rb.gy/9kt49 #elt #tefl

paulwalsh@josipa74 (@josipa74) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Also "FAU has tried to contact Learnship repeatedly, but all communication has been ignored". @RobertASzabo works for Learnship. Maybe he can shed some light on this?

TEFL Workers' Union (@teflunion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Don’t accept low & unsustainable wages for the work you do." @learnship teachers in Germany, with the support of FAU | Freie Arbeiter*innen Union 👉 @[email protected], are fighting back against insecure work and "silent pay cuts". #solidarity! #TEFL FAU Berlin paulwalsh@josipa74 Business English Workers Unite teflworkersunion.org/these-wages-ar…

Business English Workers Unite (@beworkersunite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sam is right when he says the €17/hr that Learnship pays its teachers is shameful. Sadly, the truth is far worse. Learnship is pushing pay cuts, down to €12/hr, on its teachers. This is half what a business English teacher in Germany was paid 20 years ago (ignoring inflation).

Business English Workers Unite (@beworkersunite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Marina, an online language teacher, drew attention to the sickening effects of the contracting practices of the British Council and its outsourcing agency Impellam. She was subsequently dismissed." - FAU Berlin Please support Marina if you can: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/justice-for-…

Business English Workers Unite (@beworkersunite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why the mismatch? Linguarama - expectation (linguarama.com/about-us/) versus reality (kununu.com/de/linguarama-…) Let's keep on calling the bad ones out. Review your school. Truth is the best disinfectant 🧹 #ELT #TEFL #makeTEFLacareer

TEFL Workers' Union (@teflunion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Those self-employed have tended to have lower incomes and worked in more precarious industries." No shocker here for online #tefl teachers whose bosses are all-too-happy to use questionable self-employment to drive down wages and working conditions. theguardian.com/money/2023/sep…

Steve Brown (@sbrowntweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ve read online about allegations of teachers at blcinternational being required to do additional work for no extra pay. This is #WageTheft. All workers should be paid for their work! It’s time to pay up! #tefl TEFL Workers' Union

Jim Scrivener 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇭🇺🇬🇪 (@jimscriv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A worker at Brighton Language College International alleges she was sacked after complaining about being required to work unpaid on her day off. blcinternational All workers should be paid for their work! It’s time to pay up! #tefl Support the TEFL Workers' Union

TEFL Workers' Union (@teflunion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🫶🫶🙏🙏✊✊ We want to thank everyone who joined yesterday's 🚨twitterstorm🚨targeting blcinternational. Bad bosses need to learn that there's a whole world of #elt activists to hold them to account. Brighton Language College: time to sort this out (or we'll be back!)

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We want to thank everyone who joined yesterday's 🚨twitterstorm🚨targeting <a href="/brightonlc/">blcinternational</a>.

Bad bosses need to learn that there's a whole world of #elt activists to hold them to account.

Brighton Language College: time to sort this out (or we'll be back!)
TEFL Workers' Union (@teflunion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's gonna be a busy summer for our #union! If you want to stay in the loop, you can sign-up to our newsletter. It's right there on the bottom right side of our website: teflworkersunion.org #tefl #elt #eap #esol #KnowYourRights #MakeTEFLaCareer

Business English Workers Unite (@beworkersunite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We've received reports that Linguarama hasn't given Germany-based staff an increase for 5 years and is recruiting online teachers actively from outside Germany to avoid minimum wage legislation (€2,100/month). Don't be a DoS who perpetuates exploitation ✊ #makeTEFLacareer

TEFL Workers' Union (@teflunion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our #union gets a lot of emails about a lot of dodgy #TEFL schools, but Linguarama is a consistent offender. If you work at Linguarama, reach out. It's time to change #ELT for the better. It's time to #MakeTEFLaCareer. x.com/beworkersunite…

Deborah Tobin (@deborahtobin11) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And this is so-called progress. ELT is full of this kind of zero-hour contract work. It is cynical, it is wrong, and it needs to be called out, unequivocally.

TEFL Workers' Union (@teflunion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🗣️ALERT🗣️ 🚨#NativeSpeakerism and below-minimum wage pay🚨 Shame on Move Language Ahead - and ever more shame on English UK and British Council for accrediting these discriminating, exploiting scoundrels! g.co/kgs/aHjoRY

🗣️ALERT🗣️

🚨#NativeSpeakerism and below-minimum wage pay🚨

Shame on Move Language Ahead - and ever more shame on <a href="/englishuk/">English UK</a> and <a href="/BritishCouncil/">British Council</a> for accrediting these discriminating, exploiting scoundrels!

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