Technological Teachers' Federation

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January 6, 2025

The Technological Teachers' Federation (TTF) was established on August 7, 2017. It encompasses teachers, researchers, faculty members, and staff from technological universities, computer universities and affiliated research institutes, who independently engaged with the federation. The core purpose of forming the TTF is to help advance a contemporary education system that excels regionally and internationally in technology and science, to assist in the implementation of the National Education Strategic Plan (2016-2020), to support teachers, researchers, and staff for the enhancement of social well-being and quality of life, to ensure their rightful entitlements, to help faculty and researchers achieve the free expression of opinions, and to foster collaboration with local and international educational organizations.

On January 19, 2018, TTF registered as a local association. The first conference occurred in the same year, on November 17. The central executive members were elected during a meeting held at Mandalay University of Technology. On January 21, 2021, the announcement of the Central Executive and Executive Committee for TTF's second term took place, although the second conference date was postponed due to plans for COVID-19 vaccination.

၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁) ရက်နေ့ တွင် စစ်တပ်မှ အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို ပြင်းထန်စွာ ကန့်ကွက် ရှုံ့ချကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေငြာခဲ့သည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာ သမဂ္ဂ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၏ ပူးတွဲ သဘောထားထုတ်ပြန်ချက်တွင်လည်း ပူးပေါင်းပါဝင်ခဲ့သည်။ “အားလုံးတူညီ ဖဲကြိုးနီ၊ ပေါင်းစည်းဆောင်ရွက် ပြည်သူအတွက်” ဆောင်ပုဒ်ဖြင့် ပညာရေးမိသားစုများအားလုံး၊ ပြည်သူ့ဝန်ထမ်းများအားလုံး နှင့် အာဏာရှင်ဝါဒကျင့်သုံးပြီးမတရားမှုလုပ်ဆောင်ပိတ်ဆို့မှုများကို မလိုလားသောသူများအားလုံးမှ ဖဲကြိုးနီလှုပ်ရှားမှု (Red Ribbon Campaign- RRC) ကို တစ်ချိန်တည်း တစ်ပြိုင်နက်ပြုလုပ်ကြပါရန် တိုက်တွန်းခဲ့သည်။

On February 5, 2021, TTF issued a statement of comdemnation against arbitrary arrests and detentions targerting activists of the Civil Disobedience Movement-CDM. On February 6, 2021, they called for a non-violent civil disobedience campaign (CDC/CDM) starting on February 8 for all public employees. On February 7, an appeal was made to military and police personnel to take part in the CDM. On February 8, 2021, TTF issued a statement urging everyone to stand against all directives issued by the coup government, to oppose any the use of force or pressure against the CDM or protests, to cooperate with students, monks, and the people, refusing acceptance of any form of violence and opposing injustice and denying authority of the junta. On February 9, it was announced that all supporters of the dictator’s mechanism would be permanently expelled from the federation. On February 22, 2021, a declaration was made referencing Chapter (4) article (10) of the Civil Service Personnel law, asserting the significance of the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) while highlighting concerns for state interests, citizens' rights and respect for the citizens.

On March 31, TTF declared full support for the Federal Democratic Charter and aligned with the administration of the National Unity Government. They applauded the repeal of the 2008 Constitution. In collaboration with other organizations, namely the General Strike Committee of Basic/Higher Education (GSCBHE), Representative Committee of University Teachers' Associations (RC of UTAs), Basci Education Workers’ Unions Strike Committee (BEWU-SC), Basic Education General Staff Strike Committee (BEGSC), Myanmar Teachers’ Federation (MTF), TTF partcipated in the formation of the Education Cooperation Committee, on 20 December 2021.

The Spring Revolution First Anniversary CDM Education Staff Conference on January 25-26, 2022 through the cooperation between TTF and Federal Education Cooperation Network. On March 27, 2022, it was declared that the CDM Movement and Strggle Advancement Cooperation Committee had been established to amplify CDM activities through collaboration with education and health CDM forces, and to promote coordination amongst like minded organizations to increase support for the needs of CDMers.

On August 24, 2022, TTF, part of the Federal Democratic Education Cooperation Network (FDECN), joined the black ribbon movement to denounce prison violence, extrajudicial killings, and the death penalty against political prisoners, as an act of solidarity with the in prison struggles. On January 11, 2023, a joint statement was issued with partner organizations, urging the timely approval of the CDM Policy.

TTF is also a member organization of the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC).

References
1. https://www.facebook.com/669747043114787/photos/a.669880479768110/1378597395563078/?__cft__[0]=AZWeFLobQoreDukUnJkpv8Z9BkAzkv45n8UXhQLZtPKYpj6rb-LmifQuDaQCzGVFKbAZcO6Sl1mkeLdq5S3C7Prq-yB11RU7WXEP4lbJRge0ROKCvt4y7uNHgUQJk056X7IRnORYHd-HqNDHRgQpyEEd3PNNuy5rxgYQdrCAdzwUwAHmFIRGEdxPkz7TCYEDoIlODjslFvCr30R4SH0YKg4u&__tn__=EH-R
2. https://www.facebook.com/technologicalteachersfederation

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