In The Dog House
The trade unions in South Lanarkshire Council are well and truly 'in the dog house' with ordinary members - who are up in arms because of their craven behaviour over equal pay - here's what one such member had to say to me yesterday:
"Hi Mark
I was reading the update against the council, members have a good mind to sue the union from when this case first started to get our monthly union fee's back as they obviously have backed the council managment up all the way and not supported us.
WI"
Now I can absolutely understand where people are coming from and the trade unions certainly have a lot of explaining to do - because in reality they have failed to stand up for their members properly on the biggest single pay issue of modern times - the 1999 Single Status (Equal Pay) Agreement.