Restore teachers' pay or face possible industrial action

Teachers are warning ministers that they will consider mobilising for industrial action, including potential strike action, if steps are not taken to restore Scottish teachers’ pay levels and address the years of real-terms erosion of their salaries.

Members of NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union are demanding a restorative programme of teachers’ pay awards that addresses the real-terms pay cuts suffered by teachers in Scotland since 2010.

NASUWT Scotland members will set out their opposition to any further below-inflation pay awards at the Union’s Scotland Annual Conference, which will be held virtually tomorrow (Saturday).