At lunchtime on Saturday, AGM delegates gathered outside Dundee’s Caird Hall to join together in a national rally in support of the ongoing Pay Attention campaign and the 10% pay claim for 2022. Delegates brightened the City Square carrying banners and wearing t-shirts in the Pay Attention campaign’s signature pink and green. Speakers included General […]
Heather Hughes Outgoing President Heather Hughes delivered a wide-ranging address that touched on many key issues facing Scottish education. This article is an edited extract – you can read the entire text of the President’s speech at www.eis.org.uk/Meetings-And-Events/AGM2022 It’s a great pleasure for me to welcome you to the first in person AGM for three […]
Larry Flanagan It was the final AGM Report for General Secretary Larry Flanagan, who will stand down from the post over the summer. This article is an edited extract: read the full text of Larry’s speech at www.eis.org.uk/Meetings-And-Events/AGM2022 I’d like to start, at this first in-person event in three years, with a repetition of a […]
Andrea Bradley On the final day of AGM, General Secretary Designate spoke to the AGM on her vision for the EIS. This article includes edited extracts, view the full speech at: www.eis.org.uk/Meetings-And-Events/AGM2022 It’s a good reminder of how far we’ve come on the road to gender equality that all three of our office bearers, for […]
Fringe Events Equality Marking the 175th Anniversary of the EIS, the Equality Fringe featured a powerful address on the centrality of equality to the trade union agenda from Susan Flocken, European Director of ETUCE. Members were engaged in a creative activity celebrating our legacy and imagining our hopes for EIS equality activism in the future, […]
