Scotland’s biggest teaching union yesterday said its members would be “scunnered” by a pension proposal, writes Grant Smith, education reporter.
The Scottish Government released a consultation on increasing the contribution rate for the Scottish teachers’ pension scheme.
The EIS said this 1.2% rise would take the average payment to 8.96% of salary.
Larry Flanagan, the union’s general secretary, said: “The increase is wholly unjustifiable. It has nothing to do with the cost of teacher pensions but is simply an austerity tax to raise finance for the UK treasury.”
He said ministers claimed to be opposed to the increase, but were “meekly” passing on the proposal from the Westminster government.
“Frankly, Scottish teachers will be scunnered by this announcement, conveniently timed to coincide with the Christmas break.”
