TEACHERS across Glasgow will strike later this month as they continue their fight against hundreds of job cuts.

Education union EIS has been in dispute with Glasgow City Council (GCC) since its SNP minority administration banded together with the Greens last year to pass a budget which would slash 450 teaching posts over three years.

EIS say about 300 of those posts have gone, and after a strike ballot won 95 per cent support from a furious workforce last week, the union has announced they will walk out on February 20 — GCC budget day.

Warning the cuts could do “irreparable harm” to the city’s young people, EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley said: “Teachers never take strike action lightly, but are determined to stand united to force the council to scrap the cuts.

“This is about the future of education in Glasgow, and protecting the futures of many thousands of young people — both those currently within the Glasgow school system and also those that will follow in the years ahead.

“This is a hugely important fight, and one that Glasgow’s teachers — with the support of parents and the wider community — are determined to win.”

EIS Glasgow local association secretary Jane Gow added: “The council must listen to pupils, parents, carers and teachers, halt its programme of damaging cuts and recommit to working with the EIS and Glasgow’s teaching professionals to deliver a better future for all the young people of Glasgow.”

GCC convener for workforce SNP Councillor Allan Casey said he was “disappointed” at the announcement.

He added: “No-one wants to see strike action in our schools, and our door remains open to the EIS to meet with us to see if we can avert any industrial action.”