> Cosla negotiated within the cost envelope that leaders mandated them but that simply isn’t enough and goes nowhere near matching the pay offer provided to council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
🙂
They have my full support in this. Refuse collection is a rough job and the people that do it get nary near enough gratitude for the risk of harm they place themselves in daily, not to mention the poor hygienic conditions of the role. At the very minimum they should be financially compensated well above minimum wage.
we are bin laden
inflation is currently at 10% and its rising, so a 5% “uplift” is still a 5% pay cut.
Always I support of justified strike action. Stick it to em.
I am going to get absolutely fucked by these strikes (just moved house and I’ll miss a full months pickups) and I’ll only say one thing about it.
‘mon the strikers!
Good on ‘em.
Good, strike on
Currently in a Union meeting myself discussing if we should extend our strike actions.
I’m all for any strike that ballots it’s members properly and announces early and clearly. If that system is kept in place it doesn’t matter to me if the workers “deserve” the payrise or not. They have a right to this process regardless.
The SNP offered 5% labour council in Edinburgh offered 3.5%
At this point it makes you wonder why they don’t just raise the pay in the first place. Resisting just means going without the service until you fold.
> The current offer means that the lowest paid council workers be taken to a new Scottish Local Government Living Wage of £10.50.
What in the actual fuck? Tons of minimum wage jobs get paid at least that amount already and it’s still not enough. That’s horrendous. What a joke of an offer.
All we need now is a lot of fog and the thirteenth bell to start tolling over grassmarket.
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> Cosla negotiated within the cost envelope that leaders mandated them but that simply isn’t enough and goes nowhere near matching the pay offer provided to council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
🙂
They have my full support in this. Refuse collection is a rough job and the people that do it get nary near enough gratitude for the risk of harm they place themselves in daily, not to mention the poor hygienic conditions of the role. At the very minimum they should be financially compensated well above minimum wage.
we are bin laden
inflation is currently at 10% and its rising, so a 5% “uplift” is still a 5% pay cut.
Always I support of justified strike action. Stick it to em.
I am going to get absolutely fucked by these strikes (just moved house and I’ll miss a full months pickups) and I’ll only say one thing about it.
‘mon the strikers!
Good on ‘em.
Good, strike on
Currently in a Union meeting myself discussing if we should extend our strike actions.
I’m all for any strike that ballots it’s members properly and announces early and clearly. If that system is kept in place it doesn’t matter to me if the workers “deserve” the payrise or not. They have a right to this process regardless.
The SNP offered 5% labour council in Edinburgh offered 3.5%
At this point it makes you wonder why they don’t just raise the pay in the first place. Resisting just means going without the service until you fold.
> The current offer means that the lowest paid council workers be taken to a new Scottish Local Government Living Wage of £10.50.
What in the actual fuck? Tons of minimum wage jobs get paid at least that amount already and it’s still not enough. That’s horrendous. What a joke of an offer.
All we need now is a lot of fog and the thirteenth bell to start tolling over grassmarket.