Employees in Scottish education settings and refuse centres are set to go on strike after rejecting a 2% pay offer.
Pay settlements for council workers - apart from teachers - are the responsibility of Cosla and are determined through negotiations at the Scottish Joint Committee .Unions have said the walkouts could happen after pupils return from the summer break in August, with hundreds of schools affected.
"I have to agree with the first minister when she said on Friday that this was all about robbing Peter to pay Paul because she's certainly robbed local authority budgets over the past 10 years to pay somewhere else."Mr Cassidy said the Scottish government was hiding behind the "technical fact" that it did not have front-line responsibility for local government which he said was "quite laughable".
He said some workers could not afford to buy both bread and milk and some had asked to take holidays at the end of the month because they could not afford bus fares to get to work. The spokesman added: "As employers we have a responsibility to ensure that any pay deal offered is both sustainable and affordable and that is why we are unable to go beyond the current offer at this point.
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