BBC Scotland, 15 January 2025 from first thing. This captured at 10am. The following day it remained the headline story in the BBC Scotland inserts in BBC Breakfast. One of the teaching unions, the NAS UWT, had already given up because not enough members had voted but the BBC team still seem hopeful today that they might get some bad news they can connect to the Scottish Government.
It’s now an hour or so since the comedic EIS announcement:
The EIS announced that its recent statutory industrial action ballot on teacher workload has become a victim of soon-to-be repealed elements of UK anti-trade union laws, having fallen short of the strict thresholds set in that Tory-era legislation.
The EIS Executive Committee met yesterday to consider the result, and overwhelmingly agreed to move ahead with a re-ballot of members on industrial action on the matter of excessive teacher workload.
Members voting YES to Action Short of Strike: 93.10%
Members voting NO to Action Short of Strike: 6.9%Members voting YES to Strike Action: 85.94%
Members voting NO so Strike Action: 14.06%Ballot Turnout: 46.57%
So, 60% of EIS members against, or not bothered enough to vote, ‘on the matter of excess workload workload.‘
Why so not militant on this issue? Might this be a factor?
In the reporting the word ‘ratio’ does not appear. Why should it?
‘Pupil to teacher ratios were lowest in Scotland (13.3), and similar in Northern Ireland (17.1), England (18.0), and Wales (18.9).‘
BBC Scotland, so excited by a teacher strike yesterday, now after they call-off:
Nothing. Not in the public interest now?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Did you mean to say 2026 John? I have to say it is a struggle to get used to saying 2026. 🙂
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Sadly this seems to have been regurgitated by the so-called BBC wihtin the last hour.
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Just seeing the ‘failed bottle retirn scheme’ court case being chucked out, good.
Did it ‘fail’ or was it sabotaged by the English government..hmm.
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