Trade unions

• Teaching union rejects pay offer from councils

  The 9% pay increase offered to teachers in Scotland has been rejected by members of trade union EIS.

  

• Council staff should be better protected against sexual harassment

  Council staff should have better protection against unwelcome advances by people using public services, Unison has warned.

  

• Birmingham's winter of discontent

  With a series of one-day strikes to go ahead in Birmingham, Mark Whitehead explores what led to this long-running dispute over waste collection.

  

• Union refused an injunction over ongoing bin dispute

  A series of one-day strikes by refuse collectors in Birmingham is set to go ahead next week after a legal challenge by the Unite union failed.

  

• Glasgow approves £500m equal pay deal

  Glasgow council’s long-running equal pay dispute has finally come to an end as councillors formally approve a multi-million pound compensation deal for claimants.

  

• Union seeks injunction against Birmingham in long-running bin dispute

  Unite is taking high court legal action against Birmingham City Council for operating refuse vehicles without safety critical role.

  

• Half of councils failing to ensure care workers are paid travel time

  More than half of councils across England and Wales are failing to ensure homecare companies pay their staff for travel time, new research has revealed.

  

• Education union blasts Whitehall for ‘broken’ funding promises

  The UK’s largest education union has criticised the Government for ‘failing to match’ their promises on school funding.

  

• Top 100: Our most popular local government stories of 2018

  From council pay rises to troubled outsourcing firms, here is our countdown of the 100 most popular stories on LocalGov during 2018.

  

• Vulnerable children at risk due to school support staff cuts, union warns

  A quarter of school support staff go home worried every day having spoken to pupils about the issues that trouble them, according to their union.