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www.eis.org.uk/join The best legal and Reasons to Join professional advice At the EIS we’re dedicated to looking after our members The EIS provides the best legal and professional advice bar none. Our solicitors and our network of EIS Representatives, Local Association The Biggest and the Best Improving your Pay and Conditions Secretaries and Area Officers are The EIS is the largest and most effective The EIS campaigns actively to secure and available to provide the highest quality teacher trade union representing over maintain professional salaries and improve support and advice when it is needed. 80% of Scotland’s teachers (8 out of 10 conditions of services for all its members We also provide EIS members with FREE teachers and lecturers in Scotland are (the EIS has the overwhelming majority legal advice on non-employment matters members of the EIS). of members on the Scottish Negotiating through our dedicated EIS legal helpline Committee for Teachers – SNCT). staffed by qualified lawyers, open 8am- Scotland’s most affordable 7pm 5 days a week. teaching union Campaigning on the things Due to its size, the EIS is also the that matter to you most efficient and affordable union Insurance covering all EIS members Professional Financial Advice to join. You can save up to £100 per The EIS is a campaigning year compared to the cost organisation that takes a lead The EIS provides four insurance policies EIS Financial Services provides independent of some other teaching unions. on the big issues for education to all members covering: Personal Effects, financial advice, a comprehensive range of The EIS is free for all student and teachers. The EIS runs major Malicious Damage to Motor Vehicles, Third insurance and other financial planning members and remains free campaigns to protect education, Party Insurance and Personal Accident products exclusively to EIS members. throughout your probation deliver better opportunities for Insurance. year and beyond. learners, and defend the pay and conditions of teachers. Supporting your career development Leading on the key issues for education As a professional organisation the EIS is A commitment to quality and equality across committed to promoting opportunities for our education service is a hallmark of the EIS quality professional development for ALL and its work in developing policies covering: teachers throughout their careers. The EIS is Education, The Equality Agenda, Pay and the only Scottish teaching union with Learning Conditions of Service and all other areas Representatives to support members’ CPD. of trade union work. Specialist discount scheme The EIS offers all members access to a specialist discount scheme covering a large number of retail outlets in Scotland and the rest of the UK. 2 3 Who Can Join the EIS FREE Membership You can join the EIS if you are in one for Probationer teachers of the following categories. during your induction year and beyond • Students studying for a teaching • Instructors in expressive arts, qualification or PhD. home economics, former list D schools, outdoor education, • Teachers in Scotland - full & part special education. time, temporary and supply. • Persons holding a teaching • Staff employed in FE Colleges in qualification employed at SQA, Scotland whose duties include one Education Scotland, SFEU and or more of the following: teaching, similar bodies. lecturing, curriculum management & administration, tutoring or • Chartered librarians in educational assessment. establishments. • Lecturing, research and academic • Teachers or lecturers, resident in related staff in universities and Scotland, who have applied for other HEIs. asylum in the UK. • Educational Psychologists, advisers, • Persons employed as Instrumental staff tutors, development officers, Music Teachers. quality assurance inspectors and members of education directorates or any equivalent post. • Staff employed in universities and other higher education institutions as academic related or Over 80% of all teachers in counselling students, managing and lecturers in Scotland computing centres, or managing Legal Cover consultancy units. are EIS members. Included Supporting you all the way Probationer members benefit from the full range of services the EIS has to offer. Leaving you free to focus on your new career teaching and inspiring the next generation. Continuing your membership after completion of teacher training is simple: login to www.eis.org.uk/join and select the full membership option. www.eis.org.uk/join 4 5 Need Help, Support or Advice? 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As the largest teaching union in Another important part of the H&S Reps’ / FE or HE branches, and are required to Reps give information, advice and support Scotland, our strength lies in our numbers. duties is to look into complaints from any adhere to the policies, rules and regulations to teachers and lecturers on the most employees they represent regarding their of the EIS. appropriate Professional Learning for them health, safety or welfare at work. They EIS Equality Reps work in as individuals. have wide-ranging influences to monitor both primary and secondary the Health and Safety situation, keep Learning Reps offer a unique and confidential schools within local authority employees’ interests under review and service to colleagues on their career-long areas, and within Further update them on any H&S changes learning requirements. They can give practical Education and Higher or developments. guidance to members on Professional Update Education establishments and assist them in realising both personal or Branches. and professional learning goals. The Heart of the union All EIS representatives are volunteers working for their colleagues, fellow Become an members and the union as a whole. EIS Rep Be Active Get Involved 6 7 Membership Information Ethnic Monitoring EIS Subscriptions Ethnic monitoring is accepted as a key tool in combating racism in employment, provision Paying subscription by direct debit is a simple way of ensuring continuous membership. of services and in trade unions. It is supported by the EIS, STUC, TUC and the Scottish The subscription year runs from 1 September and you will be advised of any changes to Government and Parliament. However ethnic monitoring must be carried out sensitively and subscription in advance of deduction being made. with due regard to data protection. Any information gained will be treated in confidence and used only for the good of members. Ethnic monitoring is fully supported by the Equality and Direct Debit Human Rights Commission whose advice the EIS seeks in such matters. Ethnic monitoring Direct debiting (unlike standing orders) can be used when the amount or the interval categories are reviewed to ensure their validity. between payments varies. It will save you time and trouble to authorise direct debits for unspecified amounts rather than complete a new authority every time the amount Subscription Categories changes. The completed Direct Debit mandate should remain attached to the membership Entitlement to benefits of membership is available to all members irrespective of application as we advise your bank electronically that we hold this instruction. subscription category payable. You have one very important protection: Your bank will reimburse you if a direct debit which does not conform to your instructions is charged to your account. Full-time Permanent: employed on a Part-time Permanent: employed on permanent contract of service (excluding a permanent basis for less than full The system has been most carefully designed by the Banks to protect you, the payer.