Eğitim-İş urges teachers to register objections before school-year council

Eğitim-İş is calling on teachers to enter formal objections at the 2026-2027 school-year opening council, with the union targeting measures it says conflict with secular, scientific education and teachers’ rights.

The objection will focus particularly on the apron policy. The statement prepared for teachers says the measure, along with other agenda items, is “clearly contrary to the hierarchy of norms and individual freedoms.” It also criticizes practices and decisions that the union says turn teaching into an instrument of political direction, weaken the secular and scientific character of education, violate professional and economic rights, and amount to forced labor.

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I object to practices and decisions, especially the apron policy included among the agenda items of the Teachers’ Council, that are clearly contrary to the hierarchy of norms and individual freedoms.

The proposed statement says teachers will comply with actions decided by Eğitim-İş to protect rights arising from the Constitution, international conventions and national laws. It also says they will reserve all professional, legal and union rights.

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I declare that I will comply with the action decisions taken by the Eğitim-İş Union, of which I am a member, to protect my rights arising from the Constitution, international conventions and laws, and that I reserve all my professional, legal and union rights.