Members of Unison at Enable Scotland are to walk out over May and June.
Care staff working at Enable Scotland are to go on strike in a dispute over pay, their union has confirmed.
The action, which begins later this month, is the first national care strike in over a decade.
It comes after years of broken promises and delays by the Scottish Government to reform and fund social care properly, said Unison.
The union says the decision to strike was not taken lightly, but that the carers have been left with no other option after being “consistently let down by ministers”.
The strike will roll out across five days in different regions of the country, beginning on 29 May in East Renfrewshire, and continuing in Aberdeenshire, Moray, Ayrshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow. It will culminate with a march and rally at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, 12 June.
Unison Scotland regional organiser Jennifer McCarey said: “Strike action is always a last resort. But unions representing care workers have been working with the Scottish Government for several years on a plan for social care. But not a single promise made by ministers has been kept. In fact, care workers’ pay has gotten worse.
“The care sector is in crisis, and that responsibility lies squarely with the Scottish Government. Until care workers are properly valued and paid fairly, the sector will never have the care workers it needs.
“Ministers must fund charitable care properly and act to resolve this issue.”
Anna Baird, a Unison member and a personal assistant with Enable Scotland for eight years, said: “I love my job and the people I support, that’s why this decision was so hard. But we’re at breaking point.
“We’ve been made promises for years, but nothing changes. Our pay doesn’t reflect the responsibility we carry and many of us are struggling to make ends meet. We’re just asking to be valued for the vital work we do.”
An Enable spokesperson said: “Enable is disappointed by the decision to strike, but we are working positively with UNISON on our shared principle of minimising the adverse impact of this action on the people we support. Significantly enhanced pay beyond the real living wage is entirely dependent on external funding.
"Enable has worked with UNISON to advance Fair Work across the social care sector for a number of years, and we would welcome a national pay settlement for the charity sector social care workforce which is on a par with pay deals for care workers in the public sector.”
