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Latest COSLA Industrial Action Updates (3)
Unite, Scotland’s leading trade union, can confirm that its local government membership has voted to accept the two-year COSLA pay offer. Thousands of Unite’s local government members returned a 77 per cent yes vote in a ballot to support the deal worth four per cent this year and 3.5 per cent in 2026/27. The deal represents a cumulative uplift in basic pay of 7.6 per cent by April 2026.
The union can further confirm that following a meeting of its local government committee this morning, a ballot will now commence imminently on the new pay offer made by COSLA.
An offer of £1,290 has been made to council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the National Joint Council (NJC). This equates to a rise of 67 pence per hour or 5.2 per cent for a council worker earning around £25,000 based on a 37-hour week.
In contrast, the COSLA offer of 3.2 per cent equates to £800 or a 41 pence per hour increase. The pay offer difference means that a Scottish council worker would need to earn above £40,000 to match the offer being made to council workers across the UK. This means the lowest paid council workers are being disproportionately hit by COSLA’s current pay offer.
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