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SCOTTISH ministers came under pressure yesterday to ditch a below-inflation schools pay offer while teachers were mulling strikes.
At First Minister’s Questions, Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie said it was “time the government starts to listen and act on the negative feedback it continues to receive from those working in education.”
And in Dundee, the Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) AGM heard that teachers were “voting with their feet” and leaving the profession because of lousy pay. The union is demanding a 10 per cent wage increase to make up for a decade of pay rises lagging behind inflation.
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
