Scotland's teachers will continue with their strike action after rejecting the latest pay offer. A special meeting of the EIS Salaries Committee today unanimously rejected the revised pay offer from the Scottish Government and COSLA, which the union said was only a “marginal improvement”.
The union, still smarting from the offer being announced in the media before it was given to teaching unions, said it “offers only a marginal improvement on previously rejected offers”. The EIS continued: “As a result, the EIS will reject the offer and continue with its current programme of strike action until a more credible offer is put onto negotiating table.”
EIS General Secretary Andrea Bradley hit out: “This is another inadequate offer to Scotland’s teachers, which was unanimously rejected by the EIS Salaries Committee earlier today. The six per cent value of the offer for 2022-23 is insufficient, with CPI inflation currently sitting today at 10.5 per cent.
