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Ian Mullen, Katrina Baird and Kyle Bellamy of Unison City of Edinburgh Branch have called for action on violence against council staff

Action needed after 5,000 instances of violence against council staff

Overflowing bins in the Grassmarket area of Edinburgh where cleansing workers from the City of Edinburgh Council took part in strike action last year over a pay dispute.

Bin strike talks 'positive' and 'productive'

Bin strike looms larger as unions reject latest pay offer

Rubbish piled up on streets of Edinburgh in the summer of 2023 after waste and cleansing workers went on strike.

City bin strike would see ‘rubbish pile up in streets', says union

Unison says there are empty spaces in the Royal Infirmary car park which could be used if the staff car-share scheme was revised.
Picture: Ian Georgeson

'Delay end of hospital shuttle bus to look at alternatives'

Edinburgh Council's SNP group leader Adam Nols-McVey

SNP remains the party of workers - Adam Nols-McVey

A one-day school strike by Unison members in Edinburgh and three other Scottish council areas have been suspended while the union holds a ballot on an improved pay offer.

School strikes off after improved pay offer

School strikes are set to go ahead on Wednesday, November 8. Picture: Michael Gillen

School strikes: All the schools which will be open to pupils next week

School support staff who are Unison members will walk out in Edinburgh next Wednesday, November 8.

Primary and special schools to close due to strike action

Flooding in Comely Bank

Scottish Water staff strikes to go ahead next month

Edinburgh's Comely Bank Road flooded by a burst water main on nearby Comely Bank Avenue - Scottish Water workers were called to the scene to unblock drains as the street began to fill with water.

Flood response could be hit by Scottish Water strike

School support staff members of Unison during a rally outside the Scottish parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh on Wednesday September 27, 2023. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Schools set for further strikes

Striking school staff held a rally in Glasgow on Tuesday

Working people paying price of SNP failure - Ian Murray

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Breaking Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

School support workers, who are members of Unison, on the picket line at Royal Mile Primary School in Edinburgh. Jane Barlow/PA Wire

In pictures: Strike brings picket lines to city schools

Strikes in 24 of Scotland’s local authorities are set to go ahead this week after councils and a trade union failed to reach an agreement over the weekend.

Edinburgh schools to shut for three days this week
School strikes across the country set to go ahead as weekend engagement fails
Craig Paton

Strike dates announced for September

Dates announced for school strikes which will see mass closure for days

Castlegreen care home in Craigmillar was taken over by the council, along with North Merchiston, earlier this year after previous operator Four Seasons Healthcare withdrew from the Scottish market. Picture: Google.

Care home staff in fear of deportation

Unison has a mandate to close all Edinburgh's 123 schools

Schools face mass closure as staff vote to strike over pay

International Day of the Midwife falls on Friday, 5 May in 202

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2023: How to get involved

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Breaking Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

Army staff helped operate ambulance services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1,200 troops to cover for striking ambulance & Border Force staff

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Rubbish piled high during strikes in August

Refuse workers could be on strike again in weeks, says Union

Up to 75,000 council staff would be transferred to the new National Care Service, say Cosla and the unions.

Unions and Cosla slam Government ‘power grab’
Scotland’s local authorities and two public service unions have joined forces to on the Scottish Government to reverse “centralisation” plans for the new National Care Service, which they say would remove up to 75,000 staff from local councils.
Ian Swanson

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Readers' letters: Labour right to worry about Scotland

Craiglockhart campus of Edinburgh Napier University

University staff strike over pay dispute

West Lothian Council leader Lawrence Fitzpatrick.

Council leader calls for strike deal funding

Edinburgh bin strikes: Unions recommended pay rise offer be accepted by members as strikes suspended

Unions recommended pay rise offer be accepted by members as strikes suspended

Bin workers are now clearing up the rubbish that piled up during their 12-day strike.

All you need to know about scheduled bin strikes next week

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Edinburgh will be clean by next week, says council leader

A major clear up operation is under way in Edinburgh after a first wave of strikes by council bin workers came to an end.

Major clear up under way after city bin strike

Strikes in cleansing and education are set to go ahead next week after a union rejected the latest offer from local authorities. Photo: Lisa Ferguson

Bin strikes set to continue as unions reject ‘unacceptable’ council pay offer

Overflowing bins in the Grassmarket area of Edinburgh where cleansing workers from the City of Edinburgh Council are on strike.

New offer made to cleansing staff in bid to halt strikes

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Pedestrian crossing installation delays - your views online

An overflowing bin at Waverley Bridge.

Rubbish piles up as strike begins to bite

Strike action by council workers will go ahead after union members rejected a “derisory” pay offer, Unison has said.

Edinburgh bin workers to strike this week

Bins are set to go unemptied in the Capital

Bin strike set for peak of Festival

Trade union leaders warn that scenes like this of uncollected refuse could be common across Scotland as council workers vote to strike over pay

'Waste could pile high' warning as council workers vote to strike

Owen Thompson MP at the Unison event.

Midlothian MP supports ethnicity pay gap reporting

Local government workers have indicated that they are prepared to take industrial action over pay, a union has said.

Local government workers willing to strike over pay, says union

John Stevenson is remembered as a "sensitive and skilful" social worker and tireless campaigner.

Celebration for life of leading trade unionist

Frontline workers at the city's largest hospital told the Evening News frustration over the controversial staff permit scheme has reached boiling point – and caused several workers in at least one team to quit.

Nurses threatened by angry residents as RIE parking row boils over

The EIS teachers' union is pushing for a 10 per cent pay rise for teachers. Picture: TSPL

Unions warn of 'huge period of unrest' as strike ballots loom

Permits at the Royal Infirmary are 'at capacity'

Parking crisis continues at ERI as permits already 'at capacity'

Staff parking permits will be reintroduced on 17 January

Staff at ERI "on their knees" launch petition warning parking permits will force...

Demand for parking at Little France site has caused significant congestion

Queuing cars at hospital could delay ambulances, says hospital chief

A&E at the city's Royal Infirmary

Permits to be reintroduced at ERI to tackle parking crisis

Jewel House care home is one of those proposed for closure Picture: Greg Macvean

Care home closures decision delayed till after election

Helen Neilson faced being abandoned without care in her own home

Care staff shortage raises questions over home closure strategy

Protesters demonstrated against the care home closures outside the City Chambers ahead of the IJB meeting

Go-ahead for Drumbrae care home closure

Delegates at the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine's annual conference at the EICC in Edinburgh city centre earlier this month. Picture: Stewart Attwood

Edinburgh's EICC heralds 'return in confidence' and reveals string of event wins

Fords Road care home is on of those proposed for closure

Care home talks ‘a box ticking exercise’ says union

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