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24 August 2007
Glasgow council workers' victory: United strike action wins
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Glasgow Social Workers on strike , photo Duncan Brown |
After 20 days of all-out, indefinite strike action, over 600 Glasgow social care workers won a clear victory.
"Pay hike joy for striking council staff" was the headline in a recent issue of Glasgow's Evening Times..."
Brian Smith, UNISON secretary Glasgow social work services, writes in a personal capacity.
14 August 2007
Glasgow Social Care Workers win clear victory
"Pay hike joy for striking council staff" was the headline of the Glasgow Evening Times....
9 August 2007
Care workers stand firm (report 9/08/07)
Glasgow : "This strike is solid and we are staying out for all 600" said Ann of the Gorbals area team... By Ian Leech SCW UNISON steward (Personal capacity)
26 July 2007
Support Glasgow's social work strikers
SIX HUNDRED Social Care Workers, members of Unison and employees of Glasgow city council Social Work Services, began all-out indefinite strike action on 24 July in pursuit of their claim for a higher grading....
19 July 2007
Glasgow social workers vote for indefinite strike
Six hundred social care workers (SCW), employees of social work services in Glasgow city council and members of UNISON, are due to begin all-out indefinite strike action from Tuesday 24 July...
5 July 2007
Unite against war, poverty and terrorism
THE FAILED car bombs in London and Glasgow, targeting a packed nightclub and busy airport, marked the end of Blair's premiership and the beginning of Brown's...
6 May 2007
Scottish Elections: Labour rocked as SNP wins
ON 3 May, Labour lost their first election in Scotland since 1955 as the Scottish National Party (SNP) made history by becoming the largest party in the Scottish parliament...
3 May 2007
STRIKING WORKERS from the Sunvic Controls factory in Uddingston, Scotland attended a Solidarity election rally in the Glasgow Concert Hall on 25 April....
3 May 2007
Packed election rally for Scotland's Solidarity
OVER 500 people crowded into Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall for a Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement election rally on 25 April...
26 April 2007
SINCE 21 March, 42 women shop floor workers have been out on strike at Sunvic Controls, Uddingston, Scotland....
26 March 2007
Victory for Glasgow's Council Workers in the Fight for Protection
Glasgow's New Labour council have been forced to retreat in the face of a massive strike over their plans to cut the pay of 4,500 council workers....
7 December 2006
GLASGOW'S NEW Labour council has been forced to retreat in the face of a massive strike over their plans to cut the pay of 4,500 council workers. ...
29 November 2006
Glasgow council workers prepare to strike
UNISON MEMBERS in Glasgow Council have voted 2:1 in favour of strike action...
12 May 2005
Rebuilding SSP support under a third Labour term
Scotland - general election 2005: IN SCOTLAND, the opposition to New Labour policies was underlined by a 4.5% fall in their vote to 39.5% compared to the election of 2001...
19 February 2005
G8 summit Gleneagles: protest against world poverty
THE G8 (Group of Eight), who are holding a summit in Gleneagles in Scotland this July, brings together the leaders of eight of the world's richest nations: USA, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada a...
2 November 2001
Glasgow medical secretaries: Victory Over Low Pay
STRIKING MEDICAL secretaries in Glasgow have won a massive victory for low paid NHS workers. Medical secretaries in North Glasgow Hospitals UNISON branch have been taking industrial action since the beginning...
16 February 2001
Scottish Socialists weigh up ambitious plans
Philip Stott, from the Committee for a Workers International (CWI - the international socialist organisation which the Socialist Party is affiliated to) in Scotland reports on the conference of the Scottish Socialist Party, held in Glasgow...
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