Back to main newsLobby in West Dunbartonshire
Sun 07 Sep 2008
Author: UNISON, Unite and GMB unions representing workers in West Dunbartonshire Council are calling on the whole community to support a lobby of the special council meeting Wednesday 10 September.
Party political control of West Dunbartonshire has been volatile, to say the least. The unions and community groups hope to persuade the warring factions to see some sense and reverse a decision which damages the council's own workers, their families and communities.
The unions are justifiably angry about a controversial SNP motion agreed during a council meeting last month, despite a demonstration outside the chamber by hundreds of workers and local people. Effectively the council voted to withdraw thousands of pounds due in back payments to low paid women workers, cut public holidays for workers by a third and renege on other terms of an already tough single status employment deal passed on a Labour motion only three months before.
The unions and community groups want the council to think again.
The lobby of councillors takes place Wednesday from 1pm at Garshake Council offices, Dumbarton, ahead of the council meeting at 2pm.
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