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Teachers are being 'emotionally blackmailed' into taking on excessive workloads, a union boss will claim today.
Stuart Hunter, president of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA), is to call for staff to refuse to work beyond their contracted 35-hour week.
He will also compare the treatment teachers receive to the experience of domestic abuse victims, claiming they have been 'very subtly controlled and coerced' into taking on extra tasks for which they had not been trained.
Mr Hunter will suggest the 'most effective way... of ending controlling and coercive behaviour is to first acknowledge that it is happening' but that the next step is to 'unite and with one voice clearly state that magic word: No'.
Stuart Hunter (pictured) is the president of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association
Scottish Tory education spokesman Liam Kerr said: 'Teacher shortages lie at the root of this requirement to work
