For Argyll

Scottish Water’s management team and leaders of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions are to meet in Edinburgh later today (24th December). The drive is to try to reach an agreement in the pay dispute which, if it is not…

Scottish Water agreed a deal with the three unions threatening that their members would strike from 4.00pm on 24th December until 5th January 2009 if an acceptable settlement of a long-standing pay dispute was not reached. The strike would have…

Following a 24 hour walk-out by 800 workers in November in a still running pay dispute, a meeting between Scottish Water and the representative trade unions failed to come to agreement yesterday (22nd December).

The three unions concerned - GMB, Unison…

Scottish Water says that it has contingency measures in place to maintain normal services, as over 1,000 staff members go on a twenty-four hour strike today, 27th November 2008, over a pay dispute. Over 800 of the staff concerned belong to…

The biggest union representing Scottish local authority workers, Unison, saw the majority of its members accept the final pay offer of 3% this year and 2.5% next year, tabled by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla). At the same…

All three trade unions representing local authority workers in the ongoing pay dispute recently ballotted their members, recommending rejection of the latest offer.

Unison has now reported that the result of its ballot of 100,000 members is a narrow acceptance of…

Argyll, like the rest of Scotland, is currently facing the possibility of industrial action on a range of fronts, disrupting public services. There has already been industrial action arising from most of these disputes. The question is whether they can…

The three unions involved in the pay dispute with Scottish local authorities - Unite, Unison and GMB - have now sent out ballot papers to their members, with the result due next month.

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) has…

The situation UK-wide where investments of varying dimensions in Icelandic banks have gone belly-up may even lead in some case to employees not being paid this month.

Councils affected in England and Wales want the government to tide them over by…

Just as the RMT rail strike planned to run for 24 hours from yesterday lunchtime was suspended, the GMT union, followed later by Unison, have advised members to reject the recent pay offer from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities…