Hundreds of care workers in Glasgow gather to demand settlement for long-running disputes over equal pay. The workers walked out in Falkirk, Renfrewshire, and West Dunbartonshire due to a row over wages. The rally will take place in George Square.
Hundreds of striking care workers will gather in Glasgow today to demand council bosses finally settle long-running disputes over equal pay .
And she warned Humza Yousaf that retrospective equal pay claims could risk sinking local authorities without intervention from the Scottish Government. "But to suggest women workers are somehow making things worse by asking for money they are owed and, in many cases, have been owed for years is as dishonest as it is disgraceful.
“The cost of settling equal pay issues is looming over Scotland’s local councils but is not about women, it is about fairness and has been too long coming.” "Councillors have their heads in the sand and executives have their fingers in their ears but these equal pay claims will come, will be won and will need to be settled.
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