Backround

Edinburgh’s Telford College Principalship announced on 1st May 2007 that it had entered into a service level agreement with the Nottingham based 3rd party provider Protocol National [PN] to supply temporary lecturers, instructors and learning assistants from 1st August 2007.

This was a done deal without any prior discussion with the EIS-FELA Branch Committee.

The Principalship began negotiations with Protocol National in October 2006 at the same time that EIS-FELA were representing temporary lecturers who had completed 4 years continuous service and hoped to get some permanent hours as a result of changes made to employment legislation in 2002.