Council Budgets

A number of readers from North Lanarkshire have been in touch - to say that senior managers are trying to blame equal pay - for the budget cuts the council is planning next year.

Now this is nonsense, of course - from start to finish - because council budgets in Scotland actually doubled in the ten years from 1997 to 2007.

So, having the money to meet the costs of equal pay was never the issue - and councils knew about their obligations as far back as 1999 - when the Single Status (Equal Pay) Agreement in Scotland was signed.

Funny how women standing up for their rights - seems to infuriate some people.

Yet the same people have had nothing to say about the fact that so many women's jobs - were so badly undervalued and underpaid - for so many years.

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