Trade unions representing Scotland\u2019s teachers have issued a formal unanimous rejection of the latest \u2018revised\u2019 pay offer from the Scottish Government and COSLA. The differentiated 5% offer which was presented by the Scottish Government and COSLA represented no real improvement on their previous offer, which was rejected by teaching unions three months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A letter from the Teachers\u2019 Panel of the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT), has made clear that the latest divisive offer was wholly unacceptable to Scotland\u2019s teachers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commenting Des Morris, EIS Salaries Convener and Chair of the Teachers\u2019 Panel of the SNCT, said, \u201cAll of Scotland\u2019s teaching unions \u2013 representing teachers in all sectors and in all grades of post \u2013 are united in rejection of this wholly unacceptable and divisive offer from COSLA and the Scottish Government. In rejecting this proposal, we have highlighted the lack of improvement on the previous offer, which was itself rejected unanimously some three months ago. In addition to offering no tangible improvement, this proposal is also worse for many experienced teachers in promoted posts compared to the previous offer. This proposal also quite absurdly given employers\u2019 responsibilities around Fair Work and SNCT conditions of service, suggests that even more demands of teachers could have been made, adding to their already intolerable workloads, had employers chosen to do so. Also a red line is that the proposal offers a differentiated pay increase which is something that teaching unions made clear from the very start would never be acceptable to Scotland\u2019s teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Morris added, \u201cThe united message from Scotland\u2019s teaching unions and Scotland\u2019s teachers is clear \u2013 the Scottish Government and COSLA need to stop the spin and get back to the negotiating table with a fair, credible and substantially improved, undifferentiated pay offer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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