Scotland’s biggest teaching union has issued formal notices of strike ballots to all 32 local authorities.

Members of the EIS previously voted by 91% to move for strike action over pay and conditions in a consultative ballot last month.

The latest move could see the closure of schools this autumn if an agreement between the union and COSLA, the governing body for local authorities, is not reached.

The union has now confirmed that a formal notice of a statutory strike ballot for teachers will open on Wednesday, October 12.

EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley said: “The issuing of the formal ballot notices, as required by law, marks a further serious warning to Scotland’s local authorities and the Scottish Government that they must improve their pay offer to teachers or face up to the reality of strike action closing schools across Scotland this autumn.”

She added: “Teachers do not consider the prospect of taking strike action lightly, but our members are deeply angry at the continuing dragging of feet and the series of sub-inflationary pay offers that have brought us to this point.

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