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Workers in six day centres for disabled people in Glasgow are balloting for an indefinite strike. The workers are employed by Glasgow council and are members of the Unison union. The ballot follows on from the successful indefinite strike of Glasgow council social care workers last month. Like the social care workers, day centre workers were downgraded in the council’s single status pay revi...
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This is from the Glasgow City UNISON website The Council intends to cut some of your co-workers wages in April. Several hundred workers face cuts in pay with many losing thousands of pounds. The Council has reneged on the agreement made with UNISON in 2006 to maintain individuals transitional pay...
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Some 21 community service supervisors employed by Glasgow council are now entering their sixth week of indefinite strike action over single status grading. The workers are members of the Unison union. The regrading means that some workers have lost 2k a year.
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The Glasgow community service supervisors’ strike is now in its 15th week and the city wide Unison union branch ballot is continuing. Around 10,000 Unison members are being consulted on three days of strike action at the end of April to defend several hundred workmates who will face pay cuts when single status pay protection ends.
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Three weeks of indefinite strike action by 600 social care workers in the Unison union in Glasgow have won concessions over regrading from the New Labour-run council.
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This strike is solid and we are staying out for all 600  said Ann of the Gorbals area team. 600 Glasgow Social Care Workers  have been on all out strike for over two weeks. The strength, unity and almost 100% support for the strike action by Glasgow SCWs has been an example to workers across the trade union movement.
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Glasgow City Council workers may strike over the council reneging on it's decision not to slash wages under single status job evaluations. The dispute dates to 2006 when the review started and 3700 people faced losing money. Council leader Steven Purcell then assured workers then that take-home pay would be protected until April this year. Brian Smith, Unison branch secretary, said the counci...
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A strike by residential care workers in Glasgow due to take place on Wednesday of this week was called off after workers in the Unison union voted to accept an improved offer from the council. There was an attempt to tie a new pay grade to so-called modernisation plans being proposed by the council. There are some concerns over the council’s future intentions over modernisation. There are fe...
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Glasgow social care workers have called off their strike action after accepting an improved offer from the city council. About 550 staff, members of Unison, have been on strike since 24 July in a dispute over a pay and grading review, under single status job evaluation, which resulted in potential pay cuts of up to £3,000 per annum.
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Day centre workers in Glasgow have entered their second week of all-out indefinite action over a job regrading process. The strike by 220 workers in the Unison union continues to be solid. All ten day centres remained shut for the week, with 20 or 30 workers out on many of the picket lines. Strikers are angry about the single status process which has reduced the wages of the day centre workers and...
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Day centre workers in Glasgow are now into their third week of an indefinite strike over job evaluations and pay cuts. Two groups of workers on the picket lines told Penny Howard about what they do, and why they are on strike
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