national strike. it s the most widespread industrial action in scottish schools for nearly lio years, with hundreds of thousands of pupils forced to stay at home. here s our scotland correspondent, lorna gordon. school s out with tens of thousands of teachers in scotland walking out, hundreds of thousands of children affected and parents left making alternative plans for their kids. so it s going to be a bit of a stressful day for them. whilst some parents will be supporting the strike action, i m sure deep down every parent will really be worrying about the change to schedule, trying to manage childcare, trying to manage kids at home, juggle work. it s just going to be a worrying day. the latest deal on the table would have seen lower paid teachers in scotland receive a rise of up to 6.85%. it s more than the previous 5% offer, but it s well below the 10% rise that unions want. a 10% increase isjust unaffordable for the scottish government. we have a fixed budget. it is already fully
they should have had a pay rise in their bank accounts on the 1st of april they have received nothing, zero. we are now towards the end of november, we ve got a cost of living crisis and we ve got a backdrop of teachers pay having declined to the tune of 25% since 2008, so understandably they are very, very angry. the latest deal on the table would have seen lower paid teachers receive a rise of up to 6.85%, more than the previous 5% offer but well below the 10% increase the unions want. teachers say they re angry and frustrated at the latest pay offer, but the scottish government says 10% is just not affordable. we have a fixed budget and it is already fully utilised for this year so to do anything that would increase the resolution we have on this would mean that money would have to come from elsewhere, so i m very disappointed we re moving to strike action. it s disruption for our children and young people and their families that we simply don t want to see. for some parents, it
in scotland receive a rise of up to 6.85%. it s more than the previous 5% offer, but it s well below the 10% rise that unions want. a 10% increase isjust unaffordable for the scottish government. we have a fixed budget. it is already fully utilised for this year. so to do anything that would increase the resolution that we have on this would mean that money would have to come from elsewhere. so i m very disappointed that we re moving to strike action. it s disruption for our children and young people and their families that we simply don t want to see. unions are angry and say the offer made by scottish local authorities and the scottish government is insulting a kick in the teeth. so it seems like another exercise in time wasting, another great charade, another great piece of pantomime by the scottish government and cosla. and what it means is that we will be seeing strike action across scotland that will bring the vast majority of scotland s schools to closure because cosla and the
would have seen lower paid teachers receive a rise of up to 6.85%, more than the previous 5% offer but well below the 10% increase the unions want. teachers say they re angry and frustrated at the latest pay offer, bhe scottish government says but the scottish government says 10% is just not affordable. we have a fixed budget and it is already fully utilised for this year so to do anything that would increase the resolution we have on this would mean that money would have to come from elsewhere, so i m very disappointed we are moving to strike action. it s disruption for our children and young people and their families that we simply don t want to see. for some parents it will be difficult to find additional childcare. this tennis camp is helping out. i would probably rather be in school but i do like playing tennis. i like writing in school- so we were going to be doing a bit of comic strips, and i m quite sad i m missing that. it s the first national teachers strike in almost a0 y
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