Industrial action threatening to bring public services across Scotland to a standstill has been averted after less than one in six members of a major union backed the calls to strike. The Herald report that in what is understood to be the first large-scale test of the impact of the Trade Union Act 2016, Unison’s ballot of its 67,000 members employed across Scotland’s councils failed to come anywhere near the 50 per cent turnout threshold needed to hold the strike over an ongoing pay dispute legal. The report states that just over a fifth of Unison’s local government membership took part in the ballot and 9500, less than 15%, of the union members voted to strike.
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