Council Workers – Your Purple Envelope is Coming

This is a fresh ballot – and you must return it by post.
You cannot vote online – the law says strike ballots have to be by post.
Council bosses have offered a miserable 3% while your bills and council tax soar. After years of cuts, they still expect you to settle for less. Enough is enough.
 Now it’s your turn to have the final say.
From 1 May, when your purple envelope lands, open it, vote YES, and post it back straight away.
Vote YES for strike action. Vote YES for fair pay.
Don’t delay – every single vote sends a powerful message.

On February 17, COSLA offered 3% pay rise to all council staff. On February 19, UNISON Scotland’s local government committee responded decided to ballot all council staff with a recommendation to reject the offer. UNISON ran a consultative pay ballot from 10 to 27 March.

Council workers have voted in their tens of thousands to back industrial action in a dispute over pay. More than 92% of those who took part in a consultation voted in favour of strike

Postal strike ballots are due to be issued on Thursday 1 May.

  • 15 years of pay cuts ignored: They offered nothing to address the 20% pay drop many of you have suffered.
  • £15 minimum? Forget it: No real progress towards a living wage.
  • Pay cut in disguise: With rising costs and inflation, this is a real-terms pay cut.

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