SCOTLAND is heading for a summer of strikes after councils budgeted for a three percent pay rise for hundreds of thousands of staff.
The below inflation rise does not come close to meeting trade union demands and insiders fear industrial action is likely.
Relations between the unions and town halls are poor in the wake of strikes in recent years.
Schools closed last year and only reopened after the Scottish Government put more money on the table.
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