Opposition parties have said the end to the looming threat of council worker strikes would see Scots breathe a sigh of relief but that a deal should have been reached sooner.
Strikes due to go ahead this week have been suspended after unions received a new pay offer from local authority leaders.
Scottish Labour said people across the country had “suffered weeks of disruption and disarray due to the intransigence of this SNP government” while the Conservatives said the strikes “could and should have been stopped a lot sooner”.
