Unions warn threat of Dumfries and Galloway bin strike could return

Union bosses have warned strike action could be resurrected despite council staff voting to accept a pay deal.

Members in the Unison, Unite and GMB Scotland unions voted to accept an improved offer from the Scottish Government and Convention of Scottish Local Authorities’ (COSLA) last month following a long running dispute.

But unions claim COSLA is limiting some aspects of the deal – an extra day’s leave and the payment of social worker registration fees – to one year when it had been thought they would be in perpetuity.