Scottish teachers in dispute over pay with the Government will win, the president of the country’s biggest teaching union has said.
Staff have been locked in sometimes fraught negotiations with the Scottish Government and councils for months, prompting multiple days of walkouts and further action planned in the constituencies of key politicians.
Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville, Green education spokesman Ross Greer and Katie Hagmann, a councillor in Dumfries and Galloway and the finance spokeswoman for local authority body Cosla.Speaking at a fringe event at the Scottish Labour conference in Edinburgh, EIS president Andrene Bamford said the resolve of the teaching workforce to push for a 10% pay rise remains.
“This fight is about raising the status of education, raising the status of education as an education system and raising the status of education as a profession.”Ms Bamford said there had been “little cuts” in previous years, including to teacher support staff and additional support needs teachers, adding: “Children are just not getting the education they deserve.
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