Do the right thing
A number of women union members from North Lanarkshire have been in touch - all members of GMB, Unite and Unison.
All of these women started up an equal pay claim with their trade unions - and all say they were represented at the internal grievance hearing stage of the process - with North Lanarkshire Council.
But for reasons that have still to be explained - none of their cases were then registered with the Employment Tribunals - which means they have lost out on several years of their claim - money they can ill afford to lose.
Now this is not the fault of North Lanarkshire Council or the Employment Tribunals - it's down to the unions who failed to protect their members interests properly.
In the circumstances, you would think that the unions would put their hands up - admit their mistake - and agree to compensate people for their financial loss.
After all the unions are great big organisations - with huge financial resources - compared to ordinary individual members.
So surely the unions should just do the decent thing - and ensure their members don't lose out?
But so far at least this hasn't happened - in fact people are just being fobbed off - and have not even been given a sensible explanation as to what went wrong and why.
The good news is that the local press is onto the affair - let's hope the unions will now be shamed into doing the right thing.
All of these women started up an equal pay claim with their trade unions - and all say they were represented at the internal grievance hearing stage of the process - with North Lanarkshire Council.
But for reasons that have still to be explained - none of their cases were then registered with the Employment Tribunals - which means they have lost out on several years of their claim - money they can ill afford to lose.
Now this is not the fault of North Lanarkshire Council or the Employment Tribunals - it's down to the unions who failed to protect their members interests properly.
In the circumstances, you would think that the unions would put their hands up - admit their mistake - and agree to compensate people for their financial loss.
After all the unions are great big organisations - with huge financial resources - compared to ordinary individual members.
So surely the unions should just do the decent thing - and ensure their members don't lose out?
But so far at least this hasn't happened - in fact people are just being fobbed off - and have not even been given a sensible explanation as to what went wrong and why.
The good news is that the local press is onto the affair - let's hope the unions will now be shamed into doing the right thing.
