By Liz S

In more news to disappoint Labour in Scotland and Labour HQ, including Daniel J , Anas S and Sir Keir Starmer………..

BBC website :

Second story (for now) on Scotland main page

Top story (for now) on Scottish Politics page.

“Teachers’ union calls off strikes after workload deal”

“Strike action planned for schools in six Scottish council areas next week has been called off after a deal on teacher workload was agreed”

“Scotland’s largest teaching union, the EIS, had planned walkouts across two days at schools in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, Dundee, Fife, Perth and Kinross and Moray”.

“A deal reached between the unions and the Scottish government earlier this week has been approved after a meeting of Cosla – which represents the councils that employ teachers”

EIS General Secretary Andrea Bradley said that she is : “extremely pleased that a negotiated outcome, which has been approved by all sides” and also that “This agreement will have a positive impact on teacher workload and will help to create more jobs for the many newly and recently qualified teachers currently seeking secure employment in schools across Scotland”.

Meanwhile Labour HQ were unable to “call off the strikes” in England with the resident doctors nor have they , as yet, managed to reach an agreement with the BMA in England who represents these Doctors.

Also neither have Birmingham Labour Council nor Labour HQ ,as the current UK government, been able to reach any acceptable or fair agreement in respect to the Birmingham Bin strike (it has now been 14 months since that strike started).

Indeed on the 11 March 2026 it was reported that “the union Unite has voted to cut the affiliation fee it pays to Labour by 40% over the party’s actions relating to striking bin workers in Birmingham”.

See the difference between Labour and the SNP.

(Apologies for so many posts on here by me today)

Better out than in, or so they say, whoever “they” may be ?

Liz S