Local Government Pay Offer – Update

UNISON Members have overwhelmingly  voted to reject the employers’ pay offer in a consultative ballot – the results were

• To reject the offer 77.6%
• To accept the offer 22.4%

Dougie Black, regional organiser for UNISON Scotland, said: “Local government workers have suffered years of pay restraint and their pay is worth far less now than ten years ago. The cost of food, gas and electricity, travel and childcare continue to rise and, as a consequence, their living standards have been severely eroded. This can not continue.”

UNISON Scotland will now seek to pursue a further ballot for industrial action to seek to force the employers to make an improved offer.