Induction Day

No longer delivered from behind a screen,

In a bright, spacious town hall down by the sea.

A new cohort of probationers,

Fresh and ready to enter the profession.

My EIS merchandise stall beginning to attract their attention.

The room is filling up, nervous excitement fills the air.

I can’t wait to mingle and introduce myself,

To welcome them to this local authority and our trade union,

To recruit and organise and nurture and grow our membership.

So that the solitary becomes the collective, the me becomes us.

Written by Jacqui MacKenzie, EIS