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.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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