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Sturgeon snubs her Scottish sisters
Despite warm words, the SNP has repeatedly undermined the reasons for why 8,000 women struck in Glasgow last week and tried to avoid collective bargaining to boot, reports GORDON McKAY
Thousands of teachers from across Scotland stage a march in support of calls for a 10% rise in pay, in Glasgow
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
THIS year sees the 50th anniversary of the first ever TUC equal pay conference. The conference was organised following the decision by the Gunter Inquiry to recommend to the Labour government that equal pay should be addressed by a voluntary rather than a legislative approach.
Fifty years on, it would appear that the SNP council in Glasgow would still prefer that equal pay be dealt with on a voluntary rather than a statutory basis and that governments see women as an easy industrial target.
Last week, over 8,000 low-paid women, members of Unison and the GMB employed by Glasgow City Council, went on strike, closing primary schools, libraries and affecting home care services, 18 months after the Court of Session ruled that the pay and benefits system implemented by the council in 2006 discriminated against female workers.
Around 12,000 women have legal claims lodged against the council that they were paid up to £3 an hour less than men doing similar work. In the 18 months since the council accepted the Court of Session judgement no claims have been paid and no timetable has been finalised for payment.
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