TRADE unionists won a landmark victory yesterday against a care-home company whose health and safety failings led to a worker suffering serious injuries.

GMB Scotland had fought a five-year battle with Cordia, an arms-length company run by Glasgow City Council, after careworker Tracey Kennedy was injured in a fall in 2010.

Ms Kennedy was visiting a terminally ill patient when she slipped and fell on an icy path which had not been gritted and injured her wrist.