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HUNDREDS of lecturers rallied outside the Scottish Parliament on their first day of strike action yesterday, calling on the Scottish government to intervene in their ongoing pay dispute.
Teaching union EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan told members that this was a dispute “we must win for our members and the wider trade union movement” and asked umbrella group Colleges Scotland to respond positively to the anger felt in the further education (FE) sector.
The dispute stems from college management’s refusal to honour an agreement to restore national bargaining and create national pay scales for lecturers.
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