TEACHERS at the EIS AGM in Dundee yesterday swung behind an immediate ballot on industrial action over heavy workloads.

Glasgow Local Association delegate Charlotte Ahmed said that increasing workloads were badly hurting on the health and wellbeing of teachers and that staff “were visibly wilting under the pressure.”

Ms Ahmed warned that teachers were burdened with a seemingly unending workload and it was affecting their teaching, leading to teachers blaming themselves and feeling as though they were failing their pupils.