US EditionTeachers Back Strike Action in Consultative Ballot over Class Contact Time
A ballot showed 83% of Scottish teachers support strike action over undelivered promises to reduce class contact time by 1.5 hours weekly, amid ongoing workload concerns.
- A consultative ballot by the Educational Institute of Scotland showed 92% backing for action short of strike and 83% for strike action, with warnings of a statutory ballot if progress on class contact reduction stalls.
- Five years on, the undelivered promise to cut class contact reflects the Educational Institute of Scotland's concern over the 2021 Scottish Government commitment to reduce maximum class contact by 1.5 hours per week to a 21-hour ceiling.
- Last week, the Scottish Government unveiled proposals that include £186.5 million in funding to local authorities to restore teacher numbers to 2023 levels, requiring 3,800 additional teachers.
- Cosla said negotiations should move swiftly toward an agreement and timetable to deliver a maximum of 21 hours class contact, while Councillors Katie Hagmann and Tony Buchanan said industrial action in schools is in no one's interests.
- A 90-minute cut per week would represent the biggest change to teachers' terms in a generation, and the Scottish Government has proposed implementing it through a predicted decline in pupil numbers while working with local councils and teaching unions.
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Thanks to SNP among the best paid in Europe with by far the smallest classes and the least anxious in the UK so why are teacher union leaders and media hiding strike action poll response rate to try to undermine SNP Government – loyalty to Labour?
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