Swinney slams union over targeted strike

SCOTLAND'S First Minister has said pay talks for council workers are "closed" as he condemned a trade union's "utterly unacceptable" targeting of his constituency.

- CRAIG PATON

Unison announced two weeks of strike action by non-teacher school staff in Perth and Kinross after the union voted against a new pay deal.

Unite and the GMB backed the deal, which provided a 67p per hour uplift or 3.6 per cent, whichever was higher, for staff and the deal was imposed on workers.