UNION leaders have warned that school exams face major disruption in an escalation of the teacher's pay dispute, claiming that political infighting is preventing a settlement.
The Herald has been told that teachers are already being asked to work to rule including stopping marking papers in anger at a failure to provide no new money to fund pay increases since August, last year.
The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association, which with 9,000 members represents a third of Scottish secondary teachers, has said that preparation for exams has already been hit by the current wave of strikes.
A national teachers' strike is scheduled on February 28 and March 1 which has followed 21 days of rolling strikes striking two local authorities every day.
