Glasgow - Late Breaking News!

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The late breaking news from Glasgow is that the City Council has finally released the pay data which has been promised to A4ES and the other claimant organisations for weeks.

The document was sent by email just a short time ago, but it's too early to say whether this contains all of the information that was requested.

So check the blog site again tomorrow by which time we will have had a better and closer look at things.

In the meantime, many thanks for all the emails and messages of support.

I suspect these have helped to influence events because the bosses at the Council read my blog as well, of course, and must have known what was coming next!
  
  

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The breaking news from Glasgow is that there is no news from Glasgow!

Senior officials in the City Council missed their own deadline for providing long overdue pay information on Friday (3 November), but emphasised that this data would be made available  today, Monday 6 November 2017.

But nothing has been heard from the City Council today - not a word, not a cheap, no humble apologies or explanation as to what the hell is going on at the City Chambers.

Nada!

Now this is a quite extraordinary state of affairs, unprecedented in my experience of Scottish local government. 

In my opinion it's a complete 'joke', albeit one that is not remotely funny to the thousands of equal pay claimants across Glasgow who are being treated with such disrespect. 

The fightback against this contemptible behaviour by the City Council gets underway tomorrow and individual claimants will have a crucial role to play.

So watch this space.  

  


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The big news from Glasgow is that the council's senior officials have failed yet again to deliver on their promise about providing vital pay information.

The senior official responsible for this farcical situation was in touch earlier today to say that the council is still carrying out a 'final verification' of the pay data which means that it will not be available until Monday.

Now I have to admit that I have absolutely no idea what a 'final verification' process is, but it does seems ridiculous to me that this measure was not already factored into the original timescale for completing the task. 

Not least because Glasgow, Scotland's largest and best resourced council of course, claims to have been working hard to provide this information for months.   

The obvious point to make is that if Glasgow's equal pay claimants - carers, cooks, cleaners, catering staff, clerical workers, classroom assistants etc - did their jobs in this 'couldn't care less', slapdash manner, there would be hell to pay.

And rightly so because the City Council would demand answers, insist that proper standards be upheld and 'carpet' anyone who was not taking their job and the service seriously. 

So why is it that senior officials in Glasgow seem to operate to a quite different set of standards and rules? 

I don't know to be honest although I do know that officials being paid big salaries worth tens of thousands of pounds year should be making a much better fist of things, instead of being obstructive and unhelpful.

Given that Monday is the new deadline, I can't see much point in going to war over the weekend, but I do plan to email this blog post to the City Council Leader, Susan Aitken and to all Glasgow MSPs and MPs. 

Monday will be a different story however and if nothing has changed by then I would be looking for people's help to ensure that the sparks start to fly.

Watch this space.

  

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