Backhanded Compliments
Action 4 Equality Scotland and Stefan Cross Solicitors have just been paid an enormous compliment by Unison.
The union has taken out a newspaper advert in May 2009 attacking us – despite the fact that:
1. Unison has a terrible track record on equal pay
2. Thousands of women have turned to Action 4 Equality Scotland and Stefan Cross for help and advice
3. Stefan Cross started fighting for equal pay in Scotland in 2005
4. The journey to justice can be long and hard
5. Stefan Cross has a top calibre legal team fighting cases
6. In South Lanarkshire Council we have nearly 2,000 cases - while Unison has precisely none!
These are the facts - we represent over 10,000 clients in Scotland - our clients know the facts and they tell us what they think about the union and equal pay.
What's truly amazing is that the union has never run a single national newspaper advert - to explain the big pay gap between traditional male and female jobs.
Maybe that's because the union helped to prop up these discriminatory pay arrangements for years - after all the employers didn't negotiate them single-handedly.
So, far from leading the fight on equal pay - the union only seems interested in attacking us.
The union feels threatened because they know that Stefan Cross Solicitors will soon be operating from a new Scottish base (in Edinburgh) - and that presents a real threat - so they're lashing out in a mixture of panic and desperation.
We, on the other hand, are happy to stand on our record.
Action 4 Equality Scotland and Stefan Cross Solicitors have helped thousands of council workers pursue equal pay claims - and the signs are that many of these cases are beginning to come to a successful conclusion.
The union has taken out a newspaper advert in May 2009 attacking us – despite the fact that:
1. Unison has a terrible track record on equal pay
2. Thousands of women have turned to Action 4 Equality Scotland and Stefan Cross for help and advice
3. Stefan Cross started fighting for equal pay in Scotland in 2005
4. The journey to justice can be long and hard
5. Stefan Cross has a top calibre legal team fighting cases
6. In South Lanarkshire Council we have nearly 2,000 cases - while Unison has precisely none!
These are the facts - we represent over 10,000 clients in Scotland - our clients know the facts and they tell us what they think about the union and equal pay.
What's truly amazing is that the union has never run a single national newspaper advert - to explain the big pay gap between traditional male and female jobs.
Maybe that's because the union helped to prop up these discriminatory pay arrangements for years - after all the employers didn't negotiate them single-handedly.
So, far from leading the fight on equal pay - the union only seems interested in attacking us.
The union feels threatened because they know that Stefan Cross Solicitors will soon be operating from a new Scottish base (in Edinburgh) - and that presents a real threat - so they're lashing out in a mixture of panic and desperation.
We, on the other hand, are happy to stand on our record.
Action 4 Equality Scotland and Stefan Cross Solicitors have helped thousands of council workers pursue equal pay claims - and the signs are that many of these cases are beginning to come to a successful conclusion.
