CUTS across Scottish councils dominated the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Dundee today — but calls to back no-cuts budgets have fallen.

From the ongoing battles for equal pay to local authority funding, delegates from across the Scotland’s public sector joined forces with local trades councils to take aim at Scottish government cuts which have led to tens of thousands of job losses over the last 15 years.

Clydebank TUC tabled a motion calling for the movement to back no-cuts budgets in councils, stating: “Congress believes through campaigning such a strategy could win wide support and cause a political crisis for the austerity policies of government and the tame councillors who have meekly managed decline.”