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To: Shirley-Anne Somerville

Honour the Deal: EIS, FELA National Strike

PETITION TO SUPPORT FURTHER EDUCATION

Scotland’s college lecturers are on strike because the colleges (i.e. the employers) are seeking to reduce the quality of educational provision to students and are reneging on an agreement they made with lecturers a year ago that delivered equal pay for college lecturers.

Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister, has said that ‘This is not a dispute about pay… This is a dispute about terms and conditions, about the amount of class contact time…’

The First Minister added ‘I would encourage certainly the employers to go the extra mile to resolve this dispute.’

If you agree with this statement and wish to protect the quality of education delivered in Further Education please sign below.

Why is this important?

In 2011, the Scottish government proposed to harmonise pay, terms and conditions of all FE lecturers from Dumfries and Galloway all the way to Stornoway. We call on them to honour the deal, in order to protect the integrity of education and the rights of workers throughout Scotland. This strike is not just for lecturers in FE, it is for all workers throughout Scotland who refuse to accept negative changes to their terms and conditions and unfair pay.

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Updates

2017-05-15 15:49:56 +0100

Some great support from MSP's on the picket line. Here is a video of Patrick Harvie addressing strikers on the picket line at City of Glasgow College last week
https://twitter.com/Sfagan25/status/862583976971689986

2017-05-13 23:02:12 +0100

1,000 signatures reached

2017-05-10 22:20:52 +0100

500 signatures reached

2017-05-10 14:41:08 +0100

100 signatures reached

2017-05-10 13:12:22 +0100

50 signatures reached

2017-05-10 12:04:02 +0100

25 signatures reached

2017-05-10 10:58:04 +0100

10 signatures reached