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Scottish government scrambles to avoid bin strike
THE SNP-led Scottish government has found more cash for council workers as it scrambles to avoid another embarrassing bin strike during the Edinburgh Festivals and Fringe.
Union members, who have rejected the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla)’s latest pay offer, recycling and waste workers across 26 of Scotland’s 32 councils are due to walk out for eight days from Wednesday August 14.
Cosla described their rejected 3.2 per cent offer as “at the limits of affordability” in May.
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