Two Edinburgh Labour councillors have clashed on Twitter after one of the council's most senior members asked his party colleague "what have you done" about looming bin collector strikes.
Cllr Katrina Faccenda, who is currently suspended from Labour for voting against the group forming an administration, said she will "be out on the picket line" with council workers if planned strikes over a pay dispute go ahead later this month.
Hundreds of waste and street cleansing staff are set to walk out next Thursday (August 18) until the end of the festival after GMB, Unite and Unison members rejected a 2 per cent pay offer.