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Teachers in strike threat over salaries

SCOTTISH teachers have backed industrial action as a weapon against future attacks on pay and conditions and controversial changes to the curriculum.

Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the country’s largest teaching union, said the use of strike action was critical to defend current working arrangements at a time of cuts.

The union also agreed to hold a ballot in November for a boycott of any further development work on the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), which aims to modernise lessons and update exams.