Scotland's teachers reject latest pay offer and vow to continue with programme of strike action

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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. “The six per cent offer for is only one per cent less of a pay cut than that previously offered, twice, by the Scottish Government and COSLA.

Teachers have already lost more than one per cent of their salaries through being forced into strike action so, essentially, teachers already more than paid for this revised offer themselves.“This is just yet more smoke and mirrors from the Scottish Government and COSLA in attempting to make this offer appear more generous than it actually is.”And she said the “suggested year two component of 5.5 per cent” had not been negotiated via the appropriate forum, the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT).