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Glasgow school and nursery strikes confirmed as unions gives notice to council

Staff members including teaching assistants, early years workers, catering staff, janitors and support staff are set to go on strike with notices sent to nine councils, including Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.

Glasgow Live

Scots schools could close next month after trade union confirms strike action

Janitors, cleaners and other staff who work in schools are set to walk out in a dispute over pay

Daily Record

Angus Robertson: Labour-led council to blame for overflowing Edinburgh rubbish

Waste workers in the capital are on strike following a 3.5% pay offer which unions have called ‘derisory’ and ‘pathetic’.

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South Lanarkshire binmen set to strike over ongoing pay dispute

Although a revised pay offer is expected from Cosla, planned strike action for this week and next is expected to go ahead

Daily Record

Unions to meet councils as strikes see bins overflowing in Edinburgh

SCOTTISH councils are set to meet unions in a bid to stop the spread of strikes which have left Edinburgh’s bins overflowing and its streets…

The National (Scotland)

Unions to meet councils as strikes see Edinburgh’s streets strewn with rubbish

Council umbrella body Cosla is set to meet unions on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

What it's like in Edinburgh on day five of the bin worker strikes

THE Labour-run city of Edinburgh was covered in piles of rubbish and overflowing bins on day five of strikes as the dispute over pay grows

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Two more councils set for cleansing worker strike action after Edinburgh bin row

PLANNED strikes of waste and recycling workers in 15 Scottish councils are scheduled to continue as unions consider the latest offer from COSLA.

The National (Scotland)

Glasgow union demands assurances from COSLA over latest pay offer

COSLA have put forward an offer of 5%, but will meet with unions on Tuesday to go over the details.

Glasgow Live

Edinburgh bin strikes to continue as union warns new offer 'too vague'

Edinburgh council workers are set to continue their strike action into this week (Monday 22) and next as they say the offer of a five per cent pay rise does not come with the guarantees that they require.

Edinburgh Live

Falkirk bin strikes remain on as union says more details are needed on offer

Unite the Union members will still walk out on Wednesday unless firmer offer is made to members

Daily Record

West Dunbartonshire Council 'desperately' need funding amid Cosla proposal offer for council workers

Last Friday saw local authority body, Cosla, offer West Dunbartonshire Council workers a five percent pay rise offer and a minimum hourly rate of £10.50

Daily Record

Rubbish-strewn streets of Edinburgh seen by millions after viral online posts

IF the Tories are concerned about being "internationally embarrassed", something must be up ...

The National (Scotland)

Sturgeon urged to intervene to end ‘international embarrassment’ in Edinburgh

A strike by council workers in the capital means rubbish bins have not been emptied.

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Daily Record

Edinburgh bin strike: Nicola Sturgeon 'must intervene' to prevent 'international embarrassment' for capital

Cleansing staff at Edinburgh City Council went out on strike on Thursday August 18, as part of the protest over pay.

The National (Scotland)

Nicola Sturgeon hopes new pay offer will end bin worker strike in Edinburgh

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she hopes a new pay offer to local government workers will end the “disruption” in Edinburgh – where a strike by…

The Independent UK

Nicola Sturgeon: I hope latest council pay offer will end Edinburgh ‘disruption’

Strike action by cleansing staff as part of a dispute over pay has left litter bins in the capital overflowing.

Daily Record

South Ayrshire Council strikes as recycling bins won't be collected during industrial action

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Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh Council workers offered five per cent pay increase as strikes continue

It comes after cleansing workers in Edinburgh began an 11-day strike on Thursday after turning down an initial offer of three per cent. Refuse workers gathered in the city centre and at one of the council's waste depot's at Seafield to protest the offer

The National (Scotland)

Council workers to be offered improved 5 per cent pay rise after SNP cast deciding vote

COUNCIL workers across Scotland have been offered an improved pay increase after the president of COSLA cast the deciding vote.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh refuse workers hit out at 'ridiculous' pay offer as 11-day strike begins

Unions rejected the formal pay offer of a 3.5 per cent rise from COSLA as they begin their 11 day strike. Picket lines were formed this morning at recycling and waste centres in the city.

The National (Scotland)

Warning that 'waste will pile up' in Edinburgh as cleansing workers strike

UNITE union has warned that "waste will pile up" as they expressed their anger at the pay offer they received from Cosla at a…

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh Council workers form picket line at waste depot as strikes begin

The council have warned that "significant disruption" is expected during the strike action, which will last until the end of August, as workers hold out for an improved pay offer from government body Cosla

The National (Scotland)

Edinburgh cleansing workers begin strike action over pay dispute

CLEANSING workers at the City of Edinburgh Council are set to begin 11 days of strike action on Thursday.

Insider UK

Further rail disruption expected as two days of strikes begin

Cleaning workers in Edinburgh will also begin 11 days of strike action from today

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