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GLASGOW city CCTV workers rallied outside their employer’s headquarters yesterday as they prepared for a fourth strike this weekend to win equal pay for shift work.
The Unison members work 12-hour shifts, day and night, covering seven days a week every week of the year, but receive nothing on top of a basic wage of £8.25 an hour.
Employees of Glasgow City Council (GCC) and other workers employed by Community Safety Glasgow (CSG), an arms-length charity run by GCC and the Scottish Police Authority, receive an extra £7,500 for shift work.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
