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The International Committee, a committee of the Executive Council, was formed to help members and leaders better understand how international economic and political developments inform the political conditions we face locally in the PSC. The pressure to privatize public universities and create an increasingly contingent workforce is not unique to this country, nor is it best understood in the national context alone. We meet one Saturday per month to discuss readings, develop resolutions to propose to the union’s Delegate Assembly, and hear presentations by invited speakers—often from academic unions in other countries.A significant part of our work is also leading the union’s campaigns to extend solidarity to academics and trade unionists abroad. To that end, we have engaged with unionized faculty around the world. Our conference on globalization and academia drew participants from Canada, Mexico and beyond; our solidarity work has included organizing demonstrations calling for an end to the repression of teachers in Mexico, and organizing a donation of computer equipment to the teachers’ unions in Haiti after the earthquake of 2010.
Our committee’s efforts to connect PSC members with their global colleagues have led the union to partner with several international organizations. The TriNational Coalition in Defense of Public Education in the Americas, for example, brings together the NAFTA countries of Canada, Mexico and the United States, and the Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas (the IDEA Network) joins teacher unions in the Western Hemisphere for research on common topics.
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