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Scottish Water staff to go on two-day strike over pay

Staff at Scottish Water are to start a two-day strike from midnight tonight in a continuing row over pay, says UNISON today (Monday). Strike action will take place across Scotland ... Read More
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UNISON recommends NHS staff vote to accept pay offer

Thousands of NHS staff are being urged to vote to accept the Scottish government’s two-year pay offer in a ballot being issued today, says UNISON (Tuesday). The offer, which is ... Read More
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Council staff to be issued with strike ballots in dispute over pay, says UNISON

Scotland’s largest union is balloting council staff across Scotland, in the largest vote of its kind in recent years, says UNISON today (Tuesday). The 3% pay offer made recently by ... Read More
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Two-day strike at Scottish Water in pay row, says UNISON

Workers at Scottish Water will be on strike for two days later this month in a dispute over pay Staff will take strike action on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 ... Read More
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NHS Scotland staff to be balloted on pay offer, says UNISON

NHS staff in Scotland are to be consulted on an above-inflation two-year pay offer, says UNISON today (Tuesday). The union says that cabinet secretary for health Neil Gray has offered ... Read More
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Huge rise in private ambulance costs across NHS Scotland is the ‘tip of the iceberg’, says UNISON

Cash-strapped Scottish health boards are paying increasing amounts of their overstretched budgets to private ambulance firms, new figures published by UNISON show today (Wednesday). The union is so concerned about the ... Read More
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Local government workers vote overwhelmingly to support industrial action

Scotland’s largest local government union UNISON has announced today (Friday) that council workers have voted in their tens of thousands to back industrial action in a dispute over pay. The union ... Read More
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Mass walkout at Scottish Water as staff take action over pay dispute

Scottish Water workers are to go on strike for 24 hours from the early hours of tomorrow morning (Friday) after staff voted overwhelmingly for action, says UNISON today (Thursday) Scotland’s ... Read More
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Dundee University workers overwhelmingly support strike action, says UNISON

UNISON members at Dundee University have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking industrial action in response to the threat of more than 600 job losses, says UNISON. The union announced ... Read More
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Care strike ballot makes history as staff in charitable sector vote to take action for first time in over a decade, says UNISON

UNISON Scotland, the largest union for care workers, has announced today (Tuesday) that staff at Enable Scotland have voted to take strike action in a dispute over pay. This marks ... Read More