Glasgow refuse workers are to go ahead plans to strike from tomorrow after no pay deal was reached between union members and COSLA.
Waste workers in Glasgow will go on strike from tomorrow (August 24) with the action lasting seven days until August 31.
UNISON confirmed that 'lengthy pay negotiations' were conducted on Tuesday to no avail. The trade union and COSLA, the umbrella body representing council employers, will be writing to Deputy First Minister to ask for an urgent meeting to discuss an increase in funding for local authorities to enable talks to continue.
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It comes after waste workers in Edinburgh walked out on August 18, with the strike to last until August 30 as thousands descended on the capital for the Edinburgh Festival. Rubbish has piled up in the city centre, with bins overflowing across the city.
Johanna Baxter, UNISON Scotland’s head of local government, said: “It was a very long meeting but unfortunately there has been no breakthrough and we are a long way from a pay offer that we would be able to recommend to our members.
“COSLA negotiated within the cost envelope that leaders mandated them but that simply isn’t enough and goes nowhere near matching the pay offer provided to council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
“The only thing that both parties could agree on is that we need the urgent intervention from the Deputy First Minister to put additional funding in place and both will be writing to the Deputy First Minister to that effect today.”
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