Unions will meet on Monday to decide whether to halt strike action by waste workers.
Unions will meet on Monday morning to decide whether to suspend planned strike action by waste workers.Staff in 26 of Scotland’s 32 council areas plan to walk out from 14 – 22 August after rejecting two previous wage increases made by local government body Cosla.
He told the BBC it would then decide whether or not to suspend industrial action while the union's 90,000 members are given the chance to vote on the offer. On Sunday, one government minister said she was "quietly hopeful" the offer would be sufficient to resolve the dispute.: "The negotiations, I believe, have been very constructive.
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