Glasgow equal pay: accounts to settle
Last October, the lack of progress in settling a long-running dispute at Glasgow City Council led to the biggest equal-pay strike in British history. On Monday 21 January, over 250 women members of the GMB employed by Glasgow City Council attended a meeting to hear an update on the campaign. The previous week the media had reported that agreement had been reached with the now SNP-run Council in a dispute stretching back to 2006, when the then Labourcontrolled council introduced a new pay scheme to address gender-based pay inequalities. Refusing to adopt the pay scheme used by all other...