Glasgow school staff vote to take part in 'strongest ever' strike affecting 24 councils

📆 8/25/2023 10:40 PM
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Workers including cleaners, janitors and support workers represented by Unison have voted to strike in 24 out of the country's 32 council areas unless a pay deal is struck.

Essential school staff in Glasgow will go on strike in the autumn unless a pay deal can be struck, a union has warned.

Unison balloted school staff working for every council in Scotland over the 5% pay offer from employer body Cosla, and described the response as "unprecedented". Also impacted were: East Renfrewshire, Fife, Glasgow City, Highland, Inverclyde, Moray, North Ayrshire, Orkney Islands, Perth & Kinross, Renfrewshire, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, and West Dunbartonshire.

"School staff would prefer to be in school working with children, not on picket lines and closing dozens of schools.

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