ABSTRACT
It is with great interest and pleasure that ETUCE (European Trade Union Committee for Education) contributes to this book. This commentary does not intend to go deeply into the debate on the emergent themes, rather it will contribute with the findings of teacher unions in Europe on the topic at stake. In its work, ETUCE has used the terms “cyber-harassment” and “harassment”. The reason for using “harassment” rather than “bullying” is on the one hand to clearly show the link to the European social partners’ Framework Agreement and other EU legislation in this area; and on the other hand to demonstrate the fact that ETUCE focuses in its work on the protection of education workers’ rights and therefore the prevention of harassment; whereas bullying in the school context is used to mostly refer to student-to-student relations.
