Classrooms fall silent as teachers across Renfrewshire walk out on strike

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Teaching staff at schools across Renfrewshire joined hundreds of others up and down the country as they went on strike following an ‘insulting’ pay offer from bosses.

Thousands of pupils in Scotland had two unofficial days off as members of the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) and NASUWT unions exercised their right to stop working in order to negotiate a better deal.

It’s the latest in a series of industrial action events to affect the education sector – and comes after members of the University and College lecturers union walked out in recent weeks when they were joined by teachers from the EIS-ULA union.

Unions say that COSLA and the Scottish Government, who are in charge of pay, have not met with them since November 22 – and have questioned their willingness to come to a settlement.