Union leaders have said teacher strikes planned for Scotland's schools next week will go ahead after talks failed to produce an improved pay offer.
Discussions took place on Thursday involving the Scottish Government, local authority leaders and teaching unions.But Andrea Bradley, the general secretary of the EIS union, said that, despite "warm words", politicians, ministers and council leaders in the local government body Cosla had "failed to come to the table with a new pay offer to Scotland's teachers".
Cosla said afterwards that they "remain a distance apart in terms of a settlement" with the unions.The EIS has confirmed that a rolling 16-day programme of strikes - which will see union members take action in two local authority areas each day - will get under way on Monday.
The union's national executive committee will meet on Friday to discuss its next steps as part of its campaign.Unions have already rejected a pay offer which would see most teachers receive a 5% wage rise, although the lowest earners would get an increase of almost 7%.
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