New pay offer expected in Scottish teacher strikes

As reported by the BBC, there is a new pay offer to try to resolve Scotland’s teacher strikes expected to be made this week

Scotland’s biggest teaching union, the EIS, said any new offer would need to be significantly improved before the action is called off.

Unions want a 10% rise but the current deal is worth between five per cent and 6.85% for most staff.

Teachers have held a number of strikes across Scotland since November and more dates are planned for later this month.

Council leaders expect to hear today whether the Scottish government will give them money to increase the existing pay offer.

If this happens, they will hold a meeting later in the week to agree a new deal before it is presented to unions.

The pay dispute centres on the pay rise which teachers were due to receive in April last year.

Any offer has to be affordable to all 32 of Scotland’s councils.

Their hope would be that the new offer would lead to a suspension of strike action while a two year pay deal – which would also cover the 2023 pay offer – was negotiated.