Biggest ever equal pay strike to take place in Glasgow

Around 12,000 Glasgow City Council workers are set to walk out at the end of the month in a row over equal pay.

Unison, Unite and GMB members will down tools on 29th and 30th March.

The strike is larger than the historic equal pay strike in the city four years ago and will affect home care, cleaning, catering, schools, nurseries, residential homes, homelessness hostels, addiction services and admin functions across the council.

If the dispute is not resolved, workers will walk out again in April.

Kath Stirling, UNISON Branch Chair, said: "The purpose of the strike action is to force the council to maintain the current arrangements for equal pay compensation payments. These were won after the last strike but the council is moving to tear-up those arrangements. This could see smaller payments for some and others left out completely.

"There is no moral or political justification for such an approach. These are the same women, in the same jobs still being paid under the same discriminatory gender pay scheme. The women and their jobs haven't changed so why should the compensation arrangements."

"We say no dumping of the 2019 deal. No exclusions."

Glasgow City Council says it is committed to resolving the dispute.

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