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Teachers from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) union take part in a rally outside the Tramway in Glasgow on day two of the strike action in a dispute over pay, March 1, 2023
SCOTLAND’S largest teaching union warned today that a national dispute now looks “inevitable,” after years of councils and the SNP Scottish government “stalling” workload talks.
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) fired the shot across the bows after national and local governments missed a key deadline for proposals on how they will meet their commitment to cut teachers’ classroom time.
In 2021, the SNP manifesto promised to cut the time spent in class by 90 minutes a week to 21 hours, but, four years on, there are no plans to deliver it.
The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR
