A tough year for many in 2025. Here’s hoping 2026 is a good one for everyone. Happy New Year! 🤞🥂

Polarising and extremist rhetoric on hot button issues, say immigration or the Israel-Palestine conflict, is seeping into schools where it is driving disruption and bad behaviour. How do teachers handle this and what help are they getting to do so? www.thetimes.com/article/e8de...

Early start for Prague today. All set to see a first Dons win this year in the Conference League… and maybe do a Christmas market! #AberdeenFC #KingsOfEurope

It was an absolute privilege to be on the streets of Falkirk today and to be invited to speak at the huge Unity rally. No sign of Farage on the streets, of course - he was hidden behind the walls of a posh hotel. Sums him up. #RefugeesWelcome #ScotlandDemandsBetter

Pleased to be part of @scottishtuc.bsky.social General Council discussions today on supporting public sector workers, building trade unionism in workplaces/communities and tackling the Far Right. All that and I ate my first mince pie of the season. #HeartUnions

I am impressed with this. Good messaging. #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere

Always proud to support this event but in a week when some started targeting Primary Schools with their intolerance it was more important than ever. Great turnout from NASUWT members and the wider trade union movement. #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere

For respect. For inclusion. For unity. We march for everyone this St Andrew’s Day.

📢 It's today 📢 Come join NASUWT as we stand up, speak out and unite against racism! @scottishtuc.bsky.social

I’m astounded that anyone thinks going from shouting at hotels to shouting at Primary Schools is a good idea. Both are unacceptable but taking your poisonous ideas to a place where kids are being educated is a new low. We know who to blame: Mr ‘I didn’t intend to hurt with my racism’ Farage! #EduSky

NASUWT warn the government's failure to reduce class contact time is leaving teachers 'burned out and overwhelmed'. Members are to be asked to vote on both strike action and action short of strike, with the vote closing on Wednesday January 14. news.stv.tv/politics/tea...

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Really looking forward to today's workshop event for neurodivergent members aimed at tackling workplace inequality ✊️

Kirsty supporting the motion on Sexual Harrassment, which 1 in 5 NASUWT members has experienced since becoming a teacher. @scottishtucwc.bsky.social @scottishtuc.bsky.social #STUCwomen25

Maureen seconds the motion on Parental Leave and Pay Rights, calling for reforms, improvements and extensions. @STUCwomen #STUCwomen25

From ending sexual harassment to combatting the far-right, our Women's manifesto is making clear demands to put women's voices front and centre as we approach Holyrood 2026. www.stuc.org.uk/resources/wo...

Tara seconding the composite motion on Misogyny, Extremism & the Rise of the Far Right. Women teachers are disproportionately targeted, with increased challenges to their authority, as well as abuse and assaults. @scottishtuc.bsky.social #STUCwomen25

When women demand better, society moves forward. Scotland’s women are not asking politely for small improvements — we’re demanding a transformation rooted in dignity, equality & solidarity morningstaronline.co.uk/article/wome... @mstaronline.bsky.social @rozfoyer.bsky.social @scottishtuc.bsky.social

It is long past time for this SNP manifesto promise and Scottish Government/COSLA commitment to be delivered. No wonder our members are feeling exhausted but also enraged… #EduSky

Saw the @dundeerep.bsky.social & Citizens Theatre production of The Glass Menagerie last night. My favourite Williams play and they have done a brilliant job in bringing out its humour and pathos. Go and see it. (Though you’ll need to go to Edinburgh as it’s now finished its Glasgow run!).

Today #ScotlandDemandsBetter. Trade Unions, campaigners and activists marched through Edinburgh in their thousands. The march for all of us! See some 📸 below @cpwscotland.bsky.social @scottishtuc.bsky.social

I will be there as part of the @nasuwtscotland.bsky.social group. Looking forward to it. Let’s show who really cares about Scotland’s workers and families (clue: it’s not Fake Farage & co). #ScotandDemandsBetter

⏳5 days to go! Join us on Saturday 25th October for the march for all of us #ScotlandDemandsBetter 📍Assembly from 10am outside the Scottish Parliament before marching onto The Meadows for a rally with inspirational speakers and live music! Join us: www.scotland-demands-better.com/supporters

Took some time at our Fringe meeting at yesterday’s @scottishgreens.org Conference to encourage attendance at the #ScotlandDemandsBetter march and rally in Edinburgh on Saturday 25 October - the antidote to Fake Farage and his pals who shout at hotels. @povertyalliance.org @scottishtuc.sky.social

"There seems to be a reliance on restorative justice, you seem to learn from an early age you can be violent towards teachers and the consequence will be to go out and play with some toys.. children learn they will be rewarded" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwT...

Delighted to have @ross-greer.bsky.social and Cllr Christy Mearns at our Fringe meeting @scottishgreens.org Conference yesterday. Pleased that Ross highlighted NASUWT’s efforts to support LGBT+ rights, especially for the trans community, and his sincere thanks for that. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

NASUWT member Mustapha spoke to STV News today, at the STUC Black Workers Conference 2025, highlighting the importance of tackling far right narratives in our schools and communities. #STUCBlackworkers25 @scottishtucbwc.bsky.social

What an end to day 1 #STUCBlackworkers25. NASUWT supporting the Composite C: Tackling the Far Right. As a movement we must mobilise, in the streets, in workplaces, in our communities and in our trade unions to provide messages of hope and unity to defeat hatred and division.

This weekend, workers throughout Scotland are attending the STUC Black Workers' Conference and NASUWT has a full delegation. Looking forward to a brilliant 2 days of solidarity and empowerment ✊️ #STUCblackworkers25

So @thenerve.news doing essential work about spying/foreign influence in UK politics here - but why no wider focus as there is with the Chinese spy story? Is it because this time it involves Reform UK? Curious.

It’s becoming an all-too-familiar but frustrating refrain: local authorities need to actually share and apply the key parts of the National Action Plan on Relationships and Behaviour - especially around using a full range of consequences for poor behaviour. #EduSky

📣 On Sat 25 Oct, join us in Edinburgh as #WeDemandBetter! 🕚 Start: 11am at Scottish Parliament 🚶March through the city 🎉 Rally at The Meadows for music, speeches, food & family fun! Find out more: www.scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-ra...

Scotland has Britain's highest rate of serious attacks on school staff. Channel 4 News spoke to a number of teachers impacted and NASUWT National Official @mikecorbett1.bsky.social

Scotland has the highest rate of violent injuries to school staff in the UK, new figures suggest, with almost 500 reports recorded from 2014 to 2024

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

A snapshot of our asks to parties in advance of the election: workforce planning, safety at work, tackling discrimination, violence, hate speech & disinformation as well as better multi-agency working. Teachers deserve a better deal. Let's get it right for teachers. @mikecorbett1.bsky.social

We need restoration of teacher pay, improved working conditions, including the promised class contact time reduction, and a revised approach to tackling the ASN crisis. Scottish Government must get it right for every teacher. @mikecorbett1.bsky.social

Roz Foyer, STUC General Secretary, demanding better at the launch of the Women Against the Far Right campaign. Part 2 of 2. @rozfoyer.bsky.social @scottishtuc.bsky.social

Roz Foyer, STUC General Secretary, demanding better at the launch of the Women Against the Far Right campaign. Part 1 of 2. @rozfoyer.bsky.social

We’re asking the Scottish Government and Cosla (the local authorities body) to stop dragging their heels in agreeing the 2025-26 pay award for teachers. We need full pay restoration. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2552508...

We won't let those intent on dividing our communities use the real fears of women as a smokescreen for their hatred. We stand together against the far right. ✊️🤝

STUC Women’s Committee, alongside hundreds of other women, were supporting the launch of Women against the Far Right in Glasgow tonight. Fantastic speakers, including the amazing STUC General Secretary, Roz Foyer @jakil.bsky.social @scottishtucwc.bsky.social United against racism & the far right.

We have an unstable job market that fails to produce permanent roles for a high number of teachers, especially those earlier in their careers. It feels like we’re setting Scottish teachers up to fail. @mikecorbett1.bsky.social

Speaking on behalf of the STUC and NASUWT Scotland, Kim affirms our collective fight against the far right. NASUWT has a long and proud tradition of defending communities threatened by the far right. #perthagainstracism #StandUptoRacism

It is a patchwork picture across Scotland in relation to debriefs post incident. NASUWT supports the need for a national system to report and record every significant incident of use of force. Recording data can then be used to monitor and identify patterns. @mikecorbett1.bsky.social

There are significant professional risks intervening in a physical altercation. @mikecorbett1.bsky.social

Current national guidance needs to be improved to provide greater clarity for teachers. @mikecorbett1.bsky.social speaking to the Education C&YP Committee about the Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill.

Tomorrow the Education, Children and Young People Committee continues their consideration of the Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill. NASUWT Scotland National Official @mikecorbett1.bsky.social will be in attendance - watch online or follow along on bluesky: www.scottishparliament.tv

Join the over 200 women MSPs, cultural figures, campaigners and organisations, including the STUC Women's Committee and NASUWT Scotland activists, in signing the open letter below to show that we will not let the far right speak in our name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...

We’ll be there. Join the march for all of us! #Edinburgh #25Oct #ScotlandDemandsBetter scotland-demands-better.com