Teachers to strike over bureaucracy deadlock

Three secondary schools in East Dunbartonshire will be hit by strike action next week in the run up to exams, in a dispute over teachers’ workloads.

Around 80 members of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union and Women Teachers (NASUWT) at Kirkintilloch High School, Lenzie Academy and Bearsden Academy will take action next Tuesday with the threat of action spreading.

The union says East Dunbartonshire Council has failed to tackle management practices – such as overloading teachers with admin and bureaucracy.

Chris Keates, NASUWT general secretary, said: “It is disappointing we have been forced to take action in East Dunbartonshire, but having attempted to engage in constructive discussions to work together on these issues, regrettably the council changed its position.”