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24-hour Scottish Water strike by Unison, Unite and GMB staff

Thursday, 27th November, 2008 | News | None

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…

Strike action more likely as GMB joins Unite in ballot rejection of Cosla pay offer

Tuesday, 18th November, 2008 | Local Government, News | None

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…

Unison members accept and Unite members reject local government pay offer

Wednesday, 12th November, 2008 | Local Government, News | None

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…

Update on Argyll strike situation from council to coastguard

Friday, 31st October, 2008 | Local Government, News | None

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…

Local authority workers’ dispute - Unions to ballot

Friday, 24th October, 2008 | Local Government, News | None

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…

Scottish councils’ post-Iceland finances may hit pay and strike talks

Sunday, 12th October, 2008 | Business, Local Government, News | None

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…

Unions urge Scottish local authority workers to reject pay offer

Friday, 10th October, 2008 | Local Government, News | None

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…

Three consecutive days of strikes next week

Thursday, 2nd October, 2008 | News | None

Argyll, along with the rest of Scotland, will see three consecutive days of strikes next week. Workers belonging to the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) are to stage 24-hour walkouts on Tuesday (7th October) and Thursday (9th October). The…

All three public service unions to strike on 24th September - with PCS strike on 23rd September to close courts

Thursday, 11th September, 2008 | Business, Local Government, News | None

One hundred and fifty thousand members of the Unison and GMB unions will now join Unite in a twenty-four hour stoppage on Wednesday 24th September. This is part of the ongoing dispute with the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla)…

Another one-day local authority workers’ strike on Wednesday 24th September

Friday, 5th September, 2008 | News | None

Following the collapse of talks between the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) and the three unions representing local authority workers, Unite, Unison and GMB, the unions declared that further strike action was inevitable. Unison, the largest of the three,…