Glasgow's MSPs and MPs



A Glasgow claimant has contacted me over the response she's received from her local MSP regarding the ongoing fight for equal pay in Glasgow City Council.

The MSP's response was pretty poor ill-informed, I have to say, but here's my suggestion about how to avoid getting 'fobbed off' and how take things forward in a positive way

Hi C

Why don't you point out to your MSP that there are no 'negotiations' taking place with Glasgow City Council - and that after 8 months and 19 separate settlement meetings not a single thing of substance has been agreed.

Which is why all the outstanding equal pay cases are heading back to the Glasgow Employment Tribunal and why the trade unions (GMB and Unison) are balloting their members on strike action.

Use the information that I've published on my blog site such as the post below - better still get a few of your friends together and ask your MSP for a meeting where you can discuss the issues with him/her in person.

If I can be of any more help, let me know.

Kind regards



Mark

  

Glasgow - Strike for Equal Pay (04/09/18)


No one wants a strike, but Glasgow's equal pay claims are heading back to the Employment Tribunals and industrial action is on the cards because:
  • After 8 months and 18 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
  

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