Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard addresses the STUC annual congress being held at the Caird Hall in Dundee, today
RICHARD LEONARD pledged yesterday to create a secretary for labour in the Scottish cabinet if he becomes first minister.
In his address to the annual congress of the Scottish TUC, the Scottish Labour leader also said he would make paying the real living wage a “compulsory requirement and an inescapable obligation” for companies bidding for public contracts.
Trade union rights and labour standards would also be stipulated as a requirement for winning public-sector work.
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