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TEACHERS in Scotland are ready to strike for the first time since the 1980s unless pay is “restored to pre-austerity levels,” the country’s largest teaching union warned yesterday.
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said a below-inflation pay rise would be “unacceptable,” ahead of negotiations with the Scottish government and councils on the 2018-19 settlement.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has committed to lifting the 1 per cent public-sector pay cap and giving a 3 per cent rise to NHS staff, police, teachers, and others earning up to £30,000, with 2 per cent for those earning more.
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
