Waste workers from two Scottish trade unions set to go on strike
Members of GMB Scotland and UNISON have announced they'll be walking out at the end of the month.
Last updated 12th Aug 2022
Thousands more waste workers are going to be striking at the end of the month across Scotland.
Members of GMB Scotland will stage industrial action from Friday 26th to Monday 29th August, and Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th September.
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The strike dates for waste and recycling involving GMB Scotland members will affect the following councils:
- Aberdeen City
- Angus
- Dundee
- East Ayrshire
- East Lothian
- Falkirk
- Glasgow
- Inverclyde
- Highland
- Midlothian
- Orkney
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- West Lothian
- Perth and Kinross
- North Lanarkshire
GMB Scotland Senior Organiser Keir Greenaway said: “Unless COSLA and the Scottish Government make a significantly improved pay offer, more strikes will start across councils in just a few weeks.
“Both parties are squabbling while more of our members struggle with debt, fuel poverty, and hunger, exposing a huge gulf between politics and frontline workers.
"This is only increasing anger and fear among our members - anger over the lack of value shown to them and fear about what winter will bring in this cost-of-living crisis."
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The announcement follows workers at UNITE saying they will go on strike between August 24th-31st.
“Make no mistake, these strikes are a direct response from our extraordinary key workers to months of political failure.
"They are not prepared to accept working poverty as an inevitability even if Scotland’s political leaders are.”
The trade union UNISON has also revealed waste workers will strike across the same dates.
This will affect bin services across Aberdeenshire, Clackmannanshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Stirling and South Lanarkshire.