Women Like Men.....

Readers in North Lanarkshire will be interested to learn that NLC Gardeners on the old Manual Worker Gardener 2 grade (a relatively low grade) were being paid eye-watering bonuses of more than 90% on top of their basic pay, in some cases.

So while equivalent women workers in NLC were being paid, say, just £6 an hour, the male gardeners were receiving bonuses (unbeknown to their female colleagues) taking their hourly rate to well over £11 an hour, across much of the disputed period.

And, of course, all of this was negotiated and agreed with the local trade unions who then proceeded to keep NLC women workers completely in the dark about the huge pay differences between traditional male and female council jobs.

Amazing, don't you think?

Especially coming from a Labour-run council and Labour-supporting trade unions who said they were absolutely committed to equal opportunities and equal pay.