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Pickets at Shieldhall Waterworks, Govan
WORKERS at Scottish Water began a 24-hour strike today and warned of more to come if bosses fail to table a “fair” pay offer.
Unite, Unison and GMB Scotland members at the Scottish government-owned company defied the wind and torrential rain to picket Scottish Water’s offices in Edinburgh, Inverness, Stirling and Dundee, as well as at waste water treatment works in Govan, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire.
The latest action comes after months of dispute between unions and management over a pay offer worth 3.4 per cent, or £1,050 for those on the lowest grades of pay, over a nine-month period.
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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
