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Scottish teachers' pension age fight 'yet to be won'

SCOTTISH teachers’ fight against government plans to force them to work into their late 60s are far from over, the nation’s largest teaching union warned yesterday.

The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) delivered a blunt message to Holyrood Education Secretary Michael Russell over his widely reviled pensions rejig.

The SNP minister has already upped pensions contributions to at least 9.5 per cent of salary from 6.4 per cent two years ago.

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