COUNCIL workers in Aberdeen are set to start four days of strike action today in a major escalation of a dispute over cuts and a reorganisation of housing staff. 

Unite said that about 40 of its members in Aberdeen City Council’s housing services department would walk out.

Members have already taken several days of action, with housing and support officers repeatedly warning that they have reached breaking point as a result of cuts to the housing support service and plans to merge the housing officers’ and support officers’ roles.