Around 500 UNISON members took to picket lines at Perth and Kinross schools today
Around 500 UNISON members took to picket lines across Perth and Kinross as schools and nurseries closed to pupils during industrial action.
Monday's industrial action led to the closure of all Perth and Kinross primary schools, early learning and childcare centres, Intensive Support Provision and Perth’s Fairview School due to a national pay dispute. All secondary schools – except St John’s Academy in Perth and the Community School of Auchterarder – were open but all secondary ISP provision was closed. Navigate secondary support teaching was and will be open throughout the industrial action.
"However, please note the situation at each school may change on a daily basis. We intend to provide updates at 1pm each day for parents and carers on social media and through our website. Our school closures page www.pkc.gov.uk/schoolclosures will also be updated every day. On Monday morning, UNISON branch secretary Stuart Hope said: "We had 15 different picket lines with about 30-40 at most of them so there were probably over 500 out on picket lines this morning.
Many parents have reacted angrily as they try to juggle work and care for their children when they would normally be at school. Earlier on Monday morning finance secretary Shona Robison told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme "the result of this industrial action and all this disruption will not be more money, because there simply is none"."I would certainly encourage dialogue to continue between COSLA and UNISON; a solution has to be found.
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