The Latest Breaking News from CoSLA

UNISON, Unite and GMB took part in talks with First Minster Nicola Sturgeon, the Deputy First Minister, Scottish Government and COSLA and now recommend members agree to a new pay offer.

The dispute has seen piles of rubbish build up in city centres as waste workers went on strike.

Bin collectors, cleaners, catering staff and assistants set to receive rise worth at least 10%

The largest teachers' union, the EIS, is urging members to move to strike action in pursuit of a ten per cent pay demand.

There have been numerous rounds of talks between Cosla, unions and the Scottish Government to agree a pay deal for council staff

Cosla said its latest proposal ‘shows that Scotland’s council leaders have listened to the concerns of our workforce’.

The EIS said the current offer is effectively ‘a deep and painful real-terms pay cut for Scotland’s hard-working teachers’.

Members of the Unison, GMB and Unite trade unions will not strike next week after a revised pay offer was lodged by council chiefs.

A clean-up operation has begun in Edinburgh following more than a week of strike action by local refuse workers, with garbage piling up on most of the cities historic streets - but council reps hope that an end to the dispute is on the horizon

COUNCIL bosses have made a fourth revised pay offer to staff in a bid to avert further strike action which could close schools next week.

EXCLUSIVE: Council umbrella group COSLA has agreed to table a plan that would cap pay rises for the better off at £3,000.