Trade unions have rejected the Scottish government’s pay offers and threatened to escalate strike actions in an upcoming “winter of discontent.”
Authorities in the Scottish capital Edinburgh started a major clean-up operation on Tuesday, after nearly two weeks of industrial action by the city’s waste workers left huge piles of rubbish in many streets in the city centre.
But another wave of strikes will go ahead next week after the Unite union rejected the latest “unacceptable” offer from local authorities on Monday.
Wendy Dunsmore, industrial officer of Unite, told BBC Radio Scotland’s “Good Morning Scotland” programme, “We are absolutely resolute that this is going to be a winter of discontent and it will escalate.”…