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Welcome to refurbished Edinburgh College EIS FELA website: Reinstate Kevin Scally.

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Thank you for visiting our refurbished website. We have relaunched our site to keep everyone informed about the current campaign to have our colleague Kevin Scally reinstated to his job as a Lecturer at Edinburgh College.   Kevin, was sacked from his Lecturer post by Edinburgh College in June. On this site you will find a range of resources showing why this has happened, how the standard of education at Edinburgh College is under threat, and suggestions about what you can do to protect the service to education that Kevin and lecturers like him provide week in, week out.   For a quick introduction to Kevin’s personal story you can watch his video by clicking READ MORE: . WHAT CAN YOU DO?   There are many ways you can help. Please feel free to follow one or all of these.   You can:   1: Write to your MSPs and local councillor's to encourage them to get in touch with the College. You   Use the link below to find your Political Reprsentatives and get your voice...

Ballot Result and Union Management Meeting Notes

Colleagues, Ballot results YES:          273 (90%)                           NO:        30 (10%) (On a 60% return of those eligible to vote.) UNION/MANAGEMENT MEETING 13.3.14 At Thursday's union/management meeting, the main items discussed were as follows: 1.     Recognition and Procedures Agreement The EIS has requested adequate time for branch officials and campus representatives to engage in partnership working, negotiating on new policies including an RPA, engaging members in the process and so on. Management's response, while a slight improvement on previous proposals still falls short of the time given to the Staff Association, is less than that provided for Unison (in proportion to our respective memberships) and takes no account of the national ...