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'.
Essential school staff across Scotland have voted in favour of strike action which is expected to start in autumn if a pay deal is not struck.
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". The 24 councils where Unison strikes are threatened are: Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus, City of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee City, and East Dunbartonshire.
The union's secretary in Scotland, Lilian Macer, said: "This is Unison's strongest ever strike mandate in local government, which shows the level of anger felt by staff. "But the Scottish Government and Cosla should be in no doubt about the determination of school staff and they'll do what it takes to get an improved pay deal for all local government workers."
"Cosla leaders are meeting today and, if they fail to address the reasonable demands on the back of such a significant mandate, schools across Scotland will close and nobody wants that.
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