Edinburgh teachers are set to go through with their walk-out on Thursday after Scotland's largest teaching union blasted their 'insulting' recent pay offer.
The Scottish Government made a new offer to the EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) and SSTA (Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association) unions on Tuesday in a bid to prevent industrial action, with the former set to strike this week.
Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville had urged union leaders to postpone action to consider the offer, but the EIS unanimously rejected the plea, with its general secretary Andrea Bradley describing the offer as "nothing less than an abject insult to Scotland's hard-working teaching professionals".
