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Teachers at Hutchesons' Grammar School, an independent school in Glasgow, have commenced a programme of strike action over the school's enforcement of damaging contractual changes to teachers' pension entitlements. A statutory industrial action ballot, which closed two weeks ago, returned a result of 78% of teachers at the school supporting strike action, on a turnout of 86%. The EIS has called its members at Hutchesons' out on strike in what is believed to be the first ever strike action at an independent school in Scotland. Hutchesons' Grammar school issued 'fire...