Scottish Educational Journal

Scottish Educational Journal - THE SEJ - is the publication of the EIS - Educational Institute of Scotland!

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What a Difference a Dispute Makes 

A few short months ago, Branch Officials at Edinburgh College were confronted by a management determined to diminish their terms, conditions and working patterns while increasing both their weekly FT and class contact hours. Established legacy agreements protected under TUPE provisions were routinely ignored. CPD was to be exponentially increased and removed from the agency of professionals. Claims to discretionary time were received like a bad smell. College policies, staff were told, were a matter for consultation only. The role of the Branch would be as passive observers, their presence only necessary during discussions as a means of conferring on the outcomes a spurious legitimacy. A Recognition and Procedures agreement worthy of the name appeared a prospect so distant as to oblige officials to reconcile themselves to a protracted and increasingly difficult schedule of negotiations.

(SEJ April 2014 Pages 10/11)