Thousands of Scottish council workers have voted to take strike action over a “paltry” 2% pay offer.

At the beginning of summer, unions issued ballots to staff in each local authority on potential industrial action after they turned down the rise.

On Tuesday, Unison announced a majority of members in a number of council areas had responded in favour of striking in the face of the biggest cost of living crisis in forty years.

Unions warned that “waste will pile and schools will close” unless council workers were offered a better deal.

Pay settlements for council workers – excluding teachers – are determined by Cosla (the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) through negotiations at the Scottish Joint Committee (SJC).

Workers at City of Glasgow, Orkney Islands, Aberdeenshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Clackmannanshire, Stirling and Inverclyde councils all met the threshold for industrial action.

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