TEACHERS in East Lothian are being urged to support union calls for schools to move to remote learning two days before they close for Christmas this year. The East Lothian Local Association of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) has begun balloting members in a bid for support to lodge a formal trade dispute with East Lothian Council over the issue. The ballot, which will close on Monday, asks for members’ views on the call to move teaching and learning to remote online platforms. The local EIS branch said its suggestion of introducing home working from Monday aimed to “protect teachers, school staff, children, and their families from the continuing risk of infection”.
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Schools in Glasgow are facing the threat of industrial action by teachers over calls to bring in remote learning before and after the Christmas holiday. The Glasgow Local Association of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), Scotland s largest teaching union, has opened a consultative ballot of all members. EIS leaders said Glasgow City Council had rejected their EIS request to move teaching and learning to remote online platforms for the pre and post-Christmas period, in the interests of minimising infection risk. They claim that the Council have further failed to consider moves to blended or remote learning as a consequence of schools operating in a Level Four area of COVID restrictions.