Scots teachers angry
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SUBSCRIBE! Get your Socialist Press delivered each week by pos Leaders of the Scottish teachers' union the EIS have been forced to recognise the mounting militancy of their membership as a series of walk-outs took place last week at the failure of the Clegg comparability board to make any recommendation for Scottish teachers' pay.
Spontaneous walk-outs began last Tuesday in 34 schools and spread into ½-day strikes throughout Scotland.
Teachers who have waited over a year for a settlement of their 1979 review were raising demands that EIS General Secretary John Pollock take action on both the timing of the Clegg award and the amount of SUBSCRIPTIC money involved.
Indeed it is clear that if there is no pledge from employers at negotiations on April 21 to pay half the Clegg award by the end of May, as originally agreed, then pressure on the EIS to call widespread industrial action will be almost irresistable.
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But at the same time there is concern as to the amount of increase to be recommended by Clegg. Figures 'leaked' via the ElS suggest, for instance that Tirst-year primary teachers may be awarded only a £597 increase.
These teachers have already received a £408 interim rise in advance of the Clegg inquiry: by the end of May, therefore, they £2.00 £4.00 £8.00 £14.00 £9.00 £16.00 £10.00 £18.00 Send your cheque/P.O. to Socialist Press, BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX. could find themselves actually owing the employers £94!
At the other end of the scale headmasters on up to £15,000 per year could expect to pick up a cool £2,800 per year increase!
While conflict continues over last year's claim, the 1980 review, due to be settled on April 1, is still deadlocked, with employers having offered only 13% 7% below the rate of inflation.
It is clear that Scottish teachers must demand that their leaders reject Clegg's spurious "investigations" and take up the fight for a £4,500 minimum salary, with flat rate percentage rises for all those on higher rates of pay-protected against inflation by cost-of-living clause providing increases in line with rising prices.
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