Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association

SSTA News

  • SSTA “Protect my Pension” initiative

    In addition to the work to contract, the Association is about to begin a new phase of its pensions campaign. Members in schools have been sent post cards pre-addressed to the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament. Please use these post cards to write to your own Member of Parliament and to your constituency…

  • Work to Contract

    Colleagues, SSTA representatives were involved in pension negotiations during the summer but there remains no immediate prospect of an acceptable offer. The very real threat to our pensions continues with younger teachers bearing the largest burden of this particular attack on our conditions of service.

  • Specialist Panels

    The SSTA operates with a number of specialist panels. Their function is to inform and advise on the particular issues that they deal with.

  • Update on Pension Negotiations

    Colleagues, You will be aware that the Association is involved in negotiations with the Scottish Government and employers in an attempt to secure the best possible future pension arrangement for all teachers. Unfortunately negotiations continue to be constrained by events elsewhere in the UK.

  • SNCT document relating to Charter Teacher Courses

    The final version of the SNCT document relating to Charter Teacher courses is now available from here . The document clarifies future pay arrangements for teachers currently on the Chartered Teacher pay scale. Teachers on the Chartered Teacher scale will be assimilated at their current point on the scale in exchange for an enhanced role…

  • School Representatives Training

    The Association will hold a training session for school representatives on Wednesday 5 September. The training will take place at the Westerwood Hotel, Cumbernauld.

  • Posts Congress 2012 Bulletin

    The post-Congress 2012 edition of the SSTA Bulletin can be downloaded from here. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to open the Bulletin. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader it can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/.

  • Scottish Teacher Requests Support for his Family

    Hi fellow educational professionals and trade unionists I am emailing you about an issue which goes beyond the relatively small, ideological differences between the various trade unions and associations. It is an issue directly related to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights – the right to respect for private and family life.

  • SNCT – Chartered Teacher

    The attached paper was agreed in principle at an SNCT meeting held yesterday, Thursday 31 May 2012. This agreement ensures that teachers on the Charter Teacher scale will continue to receive their current salary in recognition of their enhanced role within schools.

  • SSTA Calls for Teachers’ Concerns Over Deep Audit to be Properly Addressed

    The Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association, representing 9000 Scottish secondary teachers, has once again raised concerns about the integrity of the ‘deep audit’ completed in March 2012.