Around 6000 teachers across Lanarkshire were on strike today over pay disputes.Every school in the area was closed for the first Scottish Teachers’ Pay strike in four decades.Scotland’s biggest union of teachers, Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), took industrial action in pursuit of a 10 per cent pay rise.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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