WORKERS across Scotland are ready for a new wave of strike action with councils having “learned nothing” amid stalled pay talks, Unison warned today.

Scottish local government’s largest union accused employers at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) of ignoring their latest pay claim.

The union, which represents more than 85,000 council workers across Scotland, submitted a pay claim in January that would see a 7 per cent increase in pay scales — an above inflation increase that could accelerate progress toward the £15 per hour minimum council wage agreed in last year’s deal, to be met by 2026.