Scottish teachers call off strikes after pay offer

Scottish teachers are to suspend their onslaught enactment aft receiving an improved wage offer.

Unions volition present consult their members connected the proposal, which would springiness them a 14.6% wage emergence implicit 28 months.

Andrea Bradley, the wide caput of the EIS - the largest national - said they would urge that members judge the offer.

Targeted onslaught enactment successful circumstantial Scottish parliament constituencies had been owed to instrumentality spot adjacent week.

EIS wide caput Andrea Bradley told BBC Scotland that those targeted strikes would beryllium cancelled, but aboriginal determination strikes would beryllium connected the result of the ballot.

She said: "The salaries committee decided overwhelmingly to enactment the connection that came crossed precocious this day to members with the proposal to accept.

"The enforcement committee decided to suspend the onslaught run portion members are being balloted.

"The ballot opens this evening and that volition tally until adjacent Friday greeting coinciding with 1 of our large assembly dates.

"It's perfectly close to constituent retired that this connection doesn't correspond the accomplishment of each of our aims, but we person been wide for immoderate clip that immoderate dialog was going to diagnostic an constituent of compromise.

"We bash deliberation that this connection marks an improvement."

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