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Another week, another strike
Unison local government committee member BRENDA AITCHISON explains why huge numbers of local government workers in schools will be taking strike action next week across Scotland
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A GREAT deal has been written about the unprecedented number of strikes which have taken place across sectors of the economy since we moved out of the pandemic.
It was in March 2020, just before lockdown, that the broadcaster, author and DJ (all-round polymath) Stuart Maconie wrote in his book The Nanny State Made Me about just how many services we rely on and the need for them to be properly invested in.
Millions of those workers who were the backbone of the country during the pandemic and beyond would have rightfully thought they would not be forced to use their industrial muscle to gain better pay. How wrong they were, and strike action has been taken in record numbers.
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With the Scottish government’s Budget day coming up in early December, BRENDA AITCHISON presses for public services to be properly funded at last after years of neglect and austerity
