Hundreds of teachers gathered at picket lines around the city today and Glaswegians seem to be backing them all the way. 

Staff from the EIS and NASUWT unions rallied outside of Buchanan Street and Nicola Sturgeon's Govanhill office in demand of a 10 percent pay rise. 

Teachers, who have rejected the current 5 percent pay offer, began striking today and will continue tomorrow, with secondary school staff expected to follow suit tomorrow.

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We took to the streets of Glasgow to find out the public's reaction to the ongoing action. 

Glasgow Times:

Levi MacLean, 19, from Glasgow's Southside, said: "To be honest, I think the teachers should be getting more than 10 percent.

"I do education at university and a lot of my lecturers have been on strike.

"With the cost-of-living crisis, they should fight, it's unbelievable.

"Our society just cannot function without teachers.

"I'm well for the strikes."

Glasgow Times:

Chloe Carlyle, 20, from Dumbarton, said: "I'm in university studying to be a teacher.

"It's a hard job, and they want people to go into education and how are you going to do that like this?

"I wholeheartedly agree with the strikes."

Glasgow Times:

Jed Lennox, 28, from Bishopbriggs, said: "I'm genuinely quite positive towards the strikes.

"It's been really rough for a lot of people for a while now. Inflation has gone mental and so, they should absolutely get the 10 percent.

"They work awfully hard, a lot harder than people think.

"Plus, they're working with kids that have been stunted because of covid, so, their job is just much harder than people are giving them credit for.

"I understand that it is also tough for the government, but they should get their proposed pay rises. I don't think it's an unfair request."

Glasgow Times:

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Angela MacManus, 56, Carntyne, added: "When the bin men went on strike it was a deadset that everyone else was going to go on strike.

"At that point, we should have set everyone down and divided the money between everybody, rather than spending it on one company and leaving everybody else."

With regards to the 10 percent, Angela added: "We should be giving them what we can afford.

"There are people going without food and heating, so, it's what can be afforded."

Glasgow Times:

Ruaridh Jackson, 40, from Partick, said: "I'm in support of the strikes and the 10 percent is completely reasonable, particularly because of inflation.

"The thing about Holyrood is that they are limited by what budget they get, so it's just about whether money is there.

"But I hope they get the 10 percent, I'm certainly in favour."