DUSTMEN who refused to cross picket lines in Glasgow last week are arguing that they should still be paid.

Around 1,000 male staff, also including parking wardens and street cleaners, were sent home during Glasgow’s equal pay strikes last week after taking a stand in solidarity.

The city council threatened trade union GMB with legal action last week, but it has now said it will not take disciplinary action against workers.

Now one rep has contacted the city’s infrastructure chief Andy Waddell asking for pay for refuse workers, the Herald reported yesterday.

Workers say they did not walk off the job but asked for duties that would not involve crossing picket lines and were then sent home.

A council spokesman told the Herald the administration “does take the view that [workers who refuse to cross picket lines] are taking part in the strike” and thus they would not get paid.

But GMB organiser Rhea Wolfson said the council had been “unable to address concerns that some staff who did not work normally on the strike days were paid,” while others had their wages docked.