On Tuesday the 25th September Educational Institute of Scotland released an official statement regarding the impending strike action at Edinburgh's Telford College.
In the statement EIS President Kirsty Devaney states:
“This dispute is about maintaining decent employment conditions for all staff and a high standard of educational provision for the students at Edinburgh's Telford College. The management have yet to explain how demoralising the lecturing staff and diminishing their terms and conditions will lead to ‘an improved student experience'. Handing over thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to a profit-making private agency, while simultaneously eroding the conditions of lecturing staff, is simply wrong and must be challenged. By destroying the employment relationship with their temporary staff, the College will succeed only in demoralising their workforce. That will clearly have a devastating impact on the College and the quality of education available to the students.”
Ms Devaney will be joining lecturers on picket duty at Edinburgh's Telford College on Thursday 27th from 8am.
The full press release can be viewed at: http://www.eis.org.uk/public.asp?id=309&dbase=3
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Well done Telford Lecturers for standing up to yet another rip off of public money going into millionaire pockets. Say No to privatisation of public education and the casualisation of the teaching profession. Help Telford lecturers anyway you can.
I totally support the lecturers and support their cause and their principles. Without people like them the whole education system would go down the toilet. Thanks to the lecturers and good luck with strike! (especially the art and design lecturers - you guys rock!)
Well done to the lecturers who are prepared to suffer financial hardship in support of their colleagues.
I shall get my congregation to say a little prayer for you all
The Principalship, the HR team (including their permanent hourly paid consultant and advisors) and the Senior Managment team have admitted that they are incapable of performing their most fundamental function of providing lecturers for students. However, not one of them has resigned or been sacked despite halving their workload. On the contrary more have been employed since the introduction of Protocol National. Not one has lost their pensions or employment rights. Instead, management have in effect covered the cost of their incompetence by taking away employment protection, pensions and wages of the temporary staff. If this was really about the difficulty of finding temporary staff, the college would have made the job more attractive, not less. This is just about dodging their legal obligations to temporary staff.
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