Glasgow and Equal Pay

The Sunday Herald reported yesterday that the SNP has Glasgow in its sights for the May 2017 local council elections.

Now I'm not a member or active supporter of any political party, but I can see the case for breaking Labour's long grip on power in areas like Glasgow where, arguably, the party has taken the voters for granted for years.

For example, why have so many low paid council workers across Scotland had to fight the 'People's Party' for so long and so hard over equal pay?

I don't know, I have to admit, but the same is true in neighbouring areas like North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire where Labour councils fought tooth and nail to prevent people from understanding the huge pay differences between traditional male and female jobs - working against the spirit of Labour's own freedom of information (FoI) legislation in a desperate effort to keep their pay secrets under wraps.

Incredibly, in South Lanarkshire the local trade unions actually discouraged their own members from pursuing equal pay claims against the Labour-run council - the major unions all being affiliated to the Labour party, of course.

Glasgow is now the only major council in Scotland not to have reached a settlement over its post-job evaluation pay arrangements and since there is no sign of the City Council coming to its senses, perhaps it is time to open up a dialogue elsewhere.

So watch this space.

  

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/15024419.Operation_Take_Glasgow__SNP_reveal_plan_to_boot_out_Labour_at_May_local_elections/?ref=rss


Operation Take Glasgow: SNP reveal plan to boot out Labour at May local elections

Operation Take Glasgow: SNP reveal plan to boot out Labour at May local elections

By Andrew Whitaker - The Sunday Herald

SUPPORT for independence and opposition to a hard Brexit will see the SNP take control of Glasgow council for the first time ever, one of the party's election campaign chiefs has said.

SNP campaign co-chair Susan Aitken said a victory for her party in Glasgow in May was more likely due to the majority of the city's electorate voting Yes in 2014.

Speaking to the Sunday Herald, Aitken said that she did not "think Glaswegians' support for independence has diminished" since the independence referendum was held.