The EIS, has joined with other TUs and education staff in the UK & Ireland, in calling on the Israeli Government to halt the demolition of Jubbet Ad-Dib School in the West Bank: As trade unions in the UK and Ireland representing educations workers in schools, colleges and universities, we are shocked and dismayed to […]
Following largescale pickets at schools in Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders a group of EIS members from across southern Scotland met with local MSPs at Holyrood on Wednesday 1st March. Labour MSPs Carol Mochan, Colin Smyth and Martin Whitfield were in attendance, as well as Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell, while Labour leader Anas […]
EIS office bearers delivered a birthday card with a shocking green and pink cake on it to the offices of COSLA in Edinburgh on 7th February, the one-year anniversary of the 2022/2023 pay claim. The cake is one of a number of designs created by Dumfries and Galloway local Exec member Stephen Horne. Stephen, who […]
Members of EIS Council were the first people to hear the result of the EIS ballot on the final pay offer, as the online ballot closed just as Council members were gathering in Edinburgh. Shortly after 10am, President Andrene Bamford announced the result to Council: 90% of members had accepted, on an 82% turnout. This […]
The EIS has opened a consultative ballot for members at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, an independent school in Glasgow, over proposed changes to pension provision and the threat to ‘fire and rehire’ teaching staff. EIS members were informed in November 2022 that the school proposed removing teachers from the Scottish Teachers’ Pension Scheme which is Defined […]
