SCOTTISH councils should resist “managerialism,” take back control from officers and lead the fightback against cuts, trade unionists argued over the weekend.

Unison organiser Jennifer McCarey told a conference organised by the Clydebank Trades Council that strike action by women council workers in Glasgow was a shining example of “bottom up trade unionism.”

She said last week’s strike, which came after a decade-long struggle for pay equality at the city council, showed that “just as trickle down economics doesn't work, neither does trickle down feminism.”