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Scottish craft workers call for 24-hour walkout in pay and conditions row



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Published Date: 15 May 2008
By CHRISTOPHER MACKIE
WORKERS employed by many local authorities across Scotland are to stage strike action, the Unite and Ucatt unions have announced.
Unite members will stage a one-day walkout on Monday 2 June and may follow it with more strikes, the union says. The disruption to council services could be increased if the construction workers union Ucatt schedules similar strike action on the same...



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1

Scotindy,

Los Angeles 15/05/2008 07:14:27
Sack the lot of them, and employ those who wish to WORK a job!!!!
2

fiferjohn,

15/05/2008 12:33:55
labour are getting the unions to destroy the good work the scottish goverment and the councils are trying to do.they have been usless to come up with anything good so they get their backers to help them out.
just like the last time labour where in power the unions destroyed them and it is happening again .
have labour learn't nothing.
3

Marian,

15/05/2008 15:00:29
This is an opportunity for the new (non New Labour) Councils to call Unite's bluff by putting this work out to tender by Private sector companies only. For far too long these Direct Labour organisations have been a featherbed for the Trade Unions to hold the taxpayers to ransom.

 

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