Scotland’s teachers are to announce further strike dates for next year, the EIS union said.
The first full strike in Scotland’s schools in almost 40 years takes place on Thursday.
It comes after what the union described as an “offensive” revised salary offer from council body Colsa was rejected.
Scotland’s largest teachers’ union has already announced additional strike dates for January and said industrial action is now also planned for February.
The EIS also warned that further strikes in December could not be ruled out.
Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has called the salary offer on the table fair and said the EIS demand for a flat 10% increase for teachers is “priceless”.
Cosla made a new proposal on Tuesday that would see a rise of up to 6.85% for some teachers earning less than £40,107.
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But EIS General Secretary Andrea Bradley told BBC Good Morning Scotland the proposal was a “clumsy move” and had “served to significantly fuel the fire in terms of our members’ anger at how they were treated over pay”. .
She added: “A cheap deal with teachers just won’t cut it.
“We had assurances from colleagues in the Scottish Government and from Cosla last week that they are doing their utmost to find new money. They just didn’t do that.
“EIS has announced two days of strikes for January and it is now inevitable that more days will be announced tomorrow so we will be looking at the strikes in January and February and it really depends on what happens at the negotiating table if they are averted can become.”
Asked if there would be any strikes before Christmas, Ms Bradley said there were no plans at the moment but the union “wouldn’t take them off the table”.
Thursday’s strike by members of the EIS will result in the closure of most schools in Scotland.
The Scottish Secondary Teachers Association is also planning a strike on December 7-8, with the union suggesting it will mean some full schools closing while others only partially open and timetables disrupted.
A third teachers’ union – the NASUWT – said its members would also strike on December 7-8.
They will then act out of strike from December 9, refuse to fill in for absent colleagues and attend no more than one meeting a week outside of school hours.
The EIS has already announced that its primary school members will go on strike on January 10th. Strikes at secondary schools follow on January 11th.
The union, which represents around 80% of teachers, is expected to announce further strike dates in February.
Under the rejected Cosla proposal, some teachers earning less than £40,107 would receive an extra £1,926 a year – a 6.86% increase for the lowest paid.
Those in the top two bands were offered a 5% raise, while those with £60,000 or more received no more than £3,000.
Ms Somerville urged unions to appreciate “the context” of the Scottish Government’s position, with a tight budget under “extreme pressure”.
She told BBC Radio Scotland: “I reckon the EIS might want to see a 10% increase, but I go back to the simple context that the budget is fully committed within the Scottish Government.
“While I appreciate that they may have wished for more to be done, this is a year when we are under extreme pressure with a tight budget already committed and it is simply impossible to meet a demand for a $10 pay rise % to meet.”
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