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Union fury as Scottish government kicks sectoral bargaining can down the road
Maree Todd, Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport in the main chamber during First Minster's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, May 11, 2023
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MORE Scottish government delays on sectoral bargaining for tens of thousands of social care workers “stinks of kicking the can down the road,” unions warned yesterday.
Despite the policy having been adopted by the Scottish government as part of the Fair Work in Social Care initiative with unions, five years on it stands undelivered.
The ongoing delays prompted Unison, Unite, GMB and the Scottish TUC to write jointly to Health & Social Care Secretary Neil Gray in August demanding sectoral bargaining be “actioned urgently,” but the response has now provoked union fury.
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