UNITE has won a sweet pay deal for workers at bakery giant Tunnock amounting to a rise of nearly 10 per cent over two years.

Britain’s biggest union secured an 8.7 per cent pay increase up to June 2018 for hundreds of workers at the Lanarkshire-based Tunnock’s factory, which makes the popular Tunnock’s teacakes, caramel wafers and snowballs.

The increase will raise most full time workers’ pay by around £1,500. Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said that the union had achieved “real progress” in pay for thousands of workers across Scotland at a time when inflation is on the rise and “pay is growing at a snail’s pace and for many workers not at all.”