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By Liz S
Michael Marra posted this on ‘X’
“It beggars belief that the SNP council is threatening to railroad through fire and rehire before it is made illegal in this country by the UK Labour government. It may not break the letter of the law but it certainly breaks the spirit of it. It’s a despicable way to treat working people. It’s straight out the Tory playbook. All parties need to get round the table and hammer out a deal,and working people should never be threatened like this again”
(Minority SNP council).
Hmm.
It beggars belief that a Labour politician, the new branch office manager, has such a selective memory, in that prior to to the SNP taking over Glasgow, his party, Labour , ran Glasgow City Council, Labour Glasgow Council spent more than £2.5m of public money fighting in court against equal pay claims by female council workers – over a pay scheme it introduced in 2007.
It also beggars belief that he , Marra, seems to also forget all of the PFI debt that exists within Scotland, debt that burdens Glasgow as well, all thanks to Labour.
So that was a despicable way Labour treated female workers in Glasgow and also the PFI debt that left millions of pounds of debt was also a despicable thing to do to Scotland and Glasgow .
Of course that kind of behaviour by Labour was straight out of the Tory playbook. Female workers and Scotland should never have been threatened like that by Labour.
This post by Marra is in relation to what is now an article on the BBC website with a headline that states:
“Glasgow City Council to fire and rehire over 23,000 employees”
In that BBC article the BBC include this statement below , with absolutely no mention of Labour’s part in this Glasgow Council equal pay dispute as the BBC wrote this:
“Glasgow City Council has been embroiled in problems over pay for years”
“The local authority previously paid out about £770m after it emerged female workers in roles such as catering or cleaning had for years been receiving up to £3 an hour less than those in male-dominated areas such as refuse collection”.
Now that beggars belief also, in that the BBC fail to mention who, via political party, was to blame for this scandal in the first place.
Selective memory and reporting is a (bad) habit that the BBC love to adopt to aid the Labour party (or indeed any party if they, the BBC, thinks or hopes that it will either hinder or damage the SNP).
Not forgetting of course that we have the Scottish local elections next year where we are currently seeing the BBC in Scotland in full campaign mode for any party but the SNP.
( BTW I do hope that the people in Scotland are aware of the complete mess that Reform UK are making in the respective English councils that they won in the 2025 local elections in England, so then hopefully they , the public in Scotland, will not be tempted to vote for Reform UK next year in our local elections- now that would be truly despicable and would also be a threat to all of our cities, towns, villages and rural areas).
Liz S
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It get’s worse.
The Glasgow Labour Group at Glasgow City Council posted this on the 20 August 2026:
“Glasgow Labour is clear: Equal Pay must be delivered, but it must be delivered fairly and with Glasgow’s workforce, not imposed upon them. Today we’re setting out the action we believe is needed to protect workers and secure a fair deal. Here’s our position”.
” We will fight any attempt to use Fire and Rehire against Glasgow Council workers”
“Equal pay should deliver justice for workers, not come at their expense”
“We want agreement not imposition. That’s why Glasgow Labour is calling for ACAS to be brought in to help resolve the outstanding issues between the council and trade unions and secure a fair , negotiated deal. There is still time to get this right.
“Glasgow Labour will stand up for the pay, terms and conditions of council workers”
“Thousands of workers are affected by these changes and some still face losing out”.
“We will not give the SNP administration a blank cheque to impose changes on the workforce”
“The Scottish government cannot stand on the sidelines. Glasgow Labour is demanding that the SNP government properly funds equal pay”
“Workers who have waited years for justice should not be asked to pay for it themselves through cuts to their wages, terms and conditions”.
Reading the above just proves that Labour, at all levels, are the worse for when it comes to shifting blame onto others for situations (i.e. scandalous behaviour) generated by them .
If you read the above post by Labour at Glasgow council (over and over again) you would be forgiven into (falsely) believing that their hands were clean in all of this as they seem to be also acting as if their collective consciences are clear in disputes on pay in Glasgow council.
(You also may be very very angry at their dishonesty and overall repeated S*** behaviour – a pattern developed and finely honed by them).
Latest news on this is that Glasgow City Council have now paused plans to fire and rehire 23,000 staff following online talks between the council and three trade unions, chaired by Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth.
Apparently it was reported that “Both the GMB and Unite unions were in favour of balloting their members over the new proposed pay structure, and said they had secured an extra £110m to be added into the salary structure” however it appear that “Unison said the extra funding was for “assimilation and arrears”, and would not help the staff facing wage cuts”.
Labour now holders of the Brass neck champions of the world, I mean come on !
Liz S
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