Edinburgh bin strike: Stoppage continues as unions reject latest below-inflation offer<br /><br />Edinburgh’s bin strike is to continue after the unions rejected the latest five per cent pay offer for council staff.<br /><br />And the action will now also spread to 13 other local authorities across Scotland, including East Lothian and West Lothian, from tomorrow.<br /><br />The Unite union said for more than half of local government workers, the offer meant an increase of between £900 and £1,250 a year, compared to the offer a £1,925 flat-rate pay offer made to council workers in England.<br />The decision, following talks with the councils’ umbrella organisation Cosla, means rubbish will continue to pile up in the streets during the Capital’s busiest month of the year.<br />
