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Council leaders 'deeply disappointed' with Nicola Sturgeon over pay dispute
10.06.2022 - 17:55 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Council leaders across Scotland are said to be "deeply disappointed" with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Finance Secretary Kate Forbes for refusing to intervene in a dispute over local government pay.
Cosla finance spokeswoman Gail Macgregor said the current budget settlement for local government "limits the options" for successfully resolving the dispute.
It came as Unison, the largest local government union in Scotland, started balloting 25,000 council workers over possible strike action.
Unison is balloting school staff, early years workers and refuse and recycling staff - with the warning that strike action could shut schools and nurseries and leave bins uncollected.
The union is recommending workers back such action after being offered a "miserly" 2% pay rise.
While the ballot will go on until July 26, local government body Cosla appealed to Sturgeon and Forbes to get involved to try to end the dispute.
Macgregor said: "Cosla every year argues for fair funding for local government to maintain the essential services our communities rely on.
"No increase in our core funding damages these services and limits the options we have in successfully concluding pay negotiations.
"Refusal to engage in discussion will only see this continue and our communities will see and feel the difference."
Her comments come in the wake of the Scottish Government's recent spending review, which will see cash allocations to councils frozen for the next three years.
But workers are demanding pay rises to help them cope with the increasing cost of living.
ScotRail workers - who are now part of the public sector - have this week been offered an improved 5% wage hike.
Johanna Baxter, Unison's head of local government in Scotland, said the 2% being
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