The ballot was launched on Friday afternoon by General Secretary Andrea Bradley during her keynote address to the EIS Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Aviemore. The ballot has been prompted by the failure, on the part of the Scottish Government and COSLA, to deliver a 2021 SNP Manifesto commitment to reduce teachers’ class contact time. […]
As the sovereign body of the EIS, the Annual General Meeting is always one of the key events of the educational calendar. This year, the event was in even sharper focus with the launch of a consultative industrial action ballot over teacher workload. With more than four years having now passed since the current Scottish […]
Nae Pasaran! EIS President Allan Crosbie addressed delegates at AGM There is a lovely film I watched with my family recently called The Half of It. In one scene, a teenager’s English teacher is trying to persuade her not to go on to the local State college, but instead to go somewhere Ivy League. There […]
AGM 2025 Address – General Secretary Andrea Bradley We’re a union that takes every possible opportunity to push forward on the objectives that you as AGM delegates democratically determine and that means we barely stand still. We strive to contribute to the efforts of the wider trade union movement here in Scotland as part of […]
What are you doing in practice to tackle the teacher workload crisis that you have previously described as ‘critical’? “Reducing class contact is absolutely critical. We have got to create the headspace for teachers to get to grips with all of this reform. I accept that we should have delivered the reduction in class contact […]
Photos from the AGM Video Roundup from Day 1 at the AGM Video Roundup – Day 2 at the AGM Video Roundup – Day 3 at the EIS AGM
EIS Education Vice-Convener Colin Finlay (Falkirk and Council) argued on behalf of Council that successful education reform “must be underpinned by teacher professionalism, voice and agency.” Referencing the formation of new national education bodies, Mr Finlay stressed the imperative for “the representative voice of teachers to be hard-wired into the governance of our national bodies […]
Sunita Nayyer (Council and South Lanarkshire) successfully moved a motion calling on Council to continue to build leadership capacity and engagement of the EIS Equality Networks by continuing the Our Voices in Union project with a new cohort of delegates. Sharing her own experience of participating in the course, Ms Nayyer said that the course […]
Heather Hughes (West Lothian and Council) proposed a motion calling for independent research on family leave provision to be commissioned to strengthen our negotiations at SNCT for improvements in Part 2 Section 7 of the SNCT Handbook, which currently makes no mention of paid leave for teachers for undergoing fertility treatment or paid leave for […]
The EIS will provide local associations with guidance in relation to personal injury claims on behalf of members, following a successful motion proposed by Employment Relations Convener Susan Slater (Moray), on behalf of EIS Council. The EIS will promote the active use of Risk Assessments at school and college level, following a successful motion proposed […]
