'The price of discrimination is a high one and Glasgow will be paying it for a long time”
Council leader Susan Aitken has hailed the £770m equal pay settlement as a “cause for celebration” as councillors welcomed the “landmark” agreement.
The settlement was required after thousands of mainly women workers were paid unfairly. Work on a new pay and grading system is “significantly advanced” and expected to be in place by October next year to end the discrimination. “It has been a slog, it has been fraught, it has been painful at times, but it has also seen extraordinary, dedicated, painstaking and creative work by officers of this council and by the claimants’ representatives.”
“The only strike action ever taken due to the equal pay dispute was in October 2018, under this current administration, with trade unions citing the administration’s deviation from the negotiations timetable,” it added.
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