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UNISON set to step up strike action as councils fail to improve pay offer
Local government workers in East Ayrshire, along with their colleague’s across
The move follows the earlier action on 20th August, which came after 150,000 members rejected an offer from employers of 2.5%.
The employers' body, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA), then indicated that it would discuss an improved offer, but further talks have seen no such improvement.
"If the employers thought that promising to reconsider their pay offer and then refusing to deliver was a clever tactic, then this next action will show them the error of their ways, " said UNISON Branch Secretary Arthur West.
"Whether this was a piece of sleight-of-hand or the inability of the employers' reps to agree a new offer, it has backfired badly. All the reports indicate that this has made members much angrier. And this is likely to be demonstrated on the 24th.
"In the event that it becomes needed, we now have authorisation for further action after 24th September. We hope that the employers will make sure we don't need to take that action, by looking at a settlement which takes account of the subsequent surge of inflation - as they promised after the last strike.
Click here for pictures of the picket lines on the 24th September.