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The Evening Times reports that GMB union members in Glasgow have voted by a massive majority for strike action in their fight for equal pay with Glasgow City Council.
Now this is a absolutely stunning majority and given the level of support amongst GMB members I would expect a similar outcome when Unison declares the result of its strike ballot next week.
https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16858828.glasgow-women-workers-vote-98-per-cent-in-favour-of-strike-action/?ref=erec
Glasgow women workers vote 98 per cent in favour of strike action
By Catriona Stewart @LadyCatHT - Evening Times
GLASGOW'S equal pay women have voted an overwhelming 98 per cent in favour of a strike.
A ballot said by the unions to be one of the largest of women workers in the UK returned this afternoon with a majority voting to walk out.
If the strike now goes ahead it will affect schools, museums and leisure facilities across the city with thousands of women involved.
Yesterday, Glasgow City Council said unions are "putting vulnerable people at risk" by calling for strike action.
But the unions say their members are clear on what they are doing and have waited long enough for compensation for years of unequal pay.
A ballot said by the unions to be one of the largest of women workers in the UK returned this afternoon with a majority voting to walk out.
If the strike now goes ahead it will affect schools, museums and leisure facilities across the city with thousands of women involved.
Yesterday, Glasgow City Council said unions are "putting vulnerable people at risk" by calling for strike action.
But the unions say their members are clear on what they are doing and have waited long enough for compensation for years of unequal pay.
Glasgow - Strike for Equal Pay (12/09/18)
- After 8 long months and 19 separate settlement meetings serious negotiations with the Council have still not got off the ground
- The Council has been moving at the veritable 'speed of a glacier' since the start of this year - without much purpose or direction
- The senior officials leading the sham settlement talks are the same group of officials who introduced the WPBR and who have been defending the scheme for years
- Senior officials do not accept the judgment of the Court of Session, Scotland's highest civil court, that their WPBR pay scheme is 'unfit for purpose'
- Nor do senior officials officials do not accept that the notorious 37 hour 'rule' is blatantly discriminatory or that they have failed to protect the interests of the Council's lowest paid, predominantly female workforce
- The Council rejected the Claimants' comparators and settlement proposals out of hand - without a serious response or putting forward an alternative
- Presenting an one-sided offer to claimants at the 'fag end' of 2018 is a complete joke - not a negotiation
