The planned Glasgow school strikes have been cancelled as Scotland's largest teaching union have accepted a pay deal with 90% of teachers balloted voting in favour of the deal.
Members of the EIS have voted to accept the sixth pay deal that has been offered to them which ends a long-running campaign of school strikes. This also ends the pay dispute between councils and the teaching unions with the first walk out taking place last November.
The teachers approval of the deal came after a breakthrough in negotiations last week, which saw the union pause strikes set to be staged in the constituencies of senior politicians, including, MSP for Glasgow Southside and First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.
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Teachers with the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) backed the sixth deal put to them, which will see a 7% pay rise backdated to April 2022, a further 5% next month, and another 2% in January.
Some 90% of EIS members who took part in the vote backed the pay offer, with 10% rejecting it. There was a turnout of 82%, the union said on Friday.
It comes after the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) union announced its members had backed the offer on Thursday.
EIS and SSTA leaders had recommended members accepted the deal.
NASUWT members are also involved in the dispute and its general secretary, Patrick Roach, had condemned the latest offer from Scottish Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville as "only a paltry improvement" on the previous proposal.
That union is also balloting its members on the deal.
Ms Somerville labelled the latest deal a "historic offer" which she said would see teacher pay "increase by 33% from January 2018 to January 2024".
She said when the offer was tabled last week: "We have looked for compromise and we have arrived at a deal that is fair, affordable and sustainable for everyone involved. The Scottish Government is supporting this deal with total funding of over £320 million across this year and next."
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