BREAKING: Teachers across Scotland say they will strike for on a further 16 days in the new year in a dispute over pay. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Announcing the latest action, Ms Bradley said:"We have been forced into the escalation of this action by the lack of willingness to negotiate properly and to pay teachers properly, by a government that says it wished to be judged on its record on education.
"The judgement of Scotland's teachers on the matter of pay is clear, with the first programme of national strike action that we have engaged in for four decades."It is now for the Scottish Government and Cosla to resolve this dispute, and prevent further strike action, by coming back to the negotiating table with a substantially improved pay offer for all of Scotland's teaching professionals.
Yesterday, Scottish Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville called for the unions to return to the negotiating table. "I appreciate the strength of feeling that's within the unions, that they want to see a 10% increase, but I would point out that since 2018, Scottish government has provided - including this year's proposal - a 21.8% cumulative increase in teacher salaries," she said on Bauer Radio.Related Topics
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