West Lothian Council - Contact Details
A full list of locals councillors and MSPs for the West Lothian area - is available from the council web site - www.westlothian.gov.uk - but here are a few obvious people that readers may wish to contact:
Councillor Peter Johnston - Leader of the Council
peter.johnston@westlothian.gov.uk
Mary Mulligan - MSP for Linlithgow (Labour Party)
Mary.Mulligan.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Angela Constance - MSP for Livingston (SNP)
Angela.Constance.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Here's a post to the blog site from last week which contains all the background information.
West Lothian Council
"West Lothian is one of the few remaining councils who have yet to make any settlement offers whatsoever - in respect of equal pay.
Quite why this should be so is a mystery - because West Lothian is no different to anywhere else.
Readers of the blog site are regularly in touch to ask for an update - and the position is that West Lothian is in the same position as every other council - which has still to make settlement offers.
Every effort is being made to press for a GMF hearing of the West Lothian cases - because this is what finally forced other councils to come to their senses.
Some readers have been in touch with the local councillors - and SNP leadership - to ask why the council is dragging its feet.
Apparently the SNP administration just want to blame the previous Labour run council - and point the finger at their political opponents.
But this ridiculous Pontious Pilate act simply won't do - and that's what people should be telling their local councillors and MSPs.
The SNP led council in West Dunbartonshire hasn't just sat back and taken the easy option - of pointing the finger elsewhere.
Oh no - unlike West Lothian - West Dunbartonshire has done something practical and asked the Scottish government to borrow extra money to meet the back pay costs of equal pay.
In fact West Dunbartonshire borrowed an additional £4.4 million - see post dated 4 August 2010 - next door Falkirk Council borrowed £5.6 million and has just issued new settlement offers.
So, what's holding the SNP back in West Lothian?
As well as pursuing matters through the Employment Tribunal process - claimants are free to raise these issues with their local councillors and MSPs.
Contact details for some of the key players will follow."
Councillor Peter Johnston - Leader of the Council
peter.johnston@westlothian.gov.uk
Mary Mulligan - MSP for Linlithgow (Labour Party)
Mary.Mulligan.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Angela Constance - MSP for Livingston (SNP)
Angela.Constance.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Here's a post to the blog site from last week which contains all the background information.
West Lothian Council
"West Lothian is one of the few remaining councils who have yet to make any settlement offers whatsoever - in respect of equal pay.
Quite why this should be so is a mystery - because West Lothian is no different to anywhere else.
Readers of the blog site are regularly in touch to ask for an update - and the position is that West Lothian is in the same position as every other council - which has still to make settlement offers.
Every effort is being made to press for a GMF hearing of the West Lothian cases - because this is what finally forced other councils to come to their senses.
Some readers have been in touch with the local councillors - and SNP leadership - to ask why the council is dragging its feet.
Apparently the SNP administration just want to blame the previous Labour run council - and point the finger at their political opponents.
But this ridiculous Pontious Pilate act simply won't do - and that's what people should be telling their local councillors and MSPs.
The SNP led council in West Dunbartonshire hasn't just sat back and taken the easy option - of pointing the finger elsewhere.
Oh no - unlike West Lothian - West Dunbartonshire has done something practical and asked the Scottish government to borrow extra money to meet the back pay costs of equal pay.
In fact West Dunbartonshire borrowed an additional £4.4 million - see post dated 4 August 2010 - next door Falkirk Council borrowed £5.6 million and has just issued new settlement offers.
So, what's holding the SNP back in West Lothian?
As well as pursuing matters through the Employment Tribunal process - claimants are free to raise these issues with their local councillors and MSPs.
Contact details for some of the key players will follow."
