Council workers sent strike ballots in ‘biggest vote of its kind in years’

Cosla has offered workers less than half of what the union had wanted (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

Tens of thousands of council workers will be balloted on strike action from Thursday in what a union is calling the biggest vote of its kind in years.

Unison said a vote will be offered to more than 80,000 workers across all of Scotland’s 32 councils.