Scottish councils 'should lead the fightback against cuts'
Unison organiser Jennifer McCarey told a conference organised by the Clydebank Trades Council that strike action by women council workers in Glasgow was a shining example of 'bottom up trade unionism'
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SCOTTISH councils should resist “managerialism,” take back control from officers and lead the fightback against cuts, trade unionists argued over the weekend.
Unison organiser Jennifer McCarey told a conference organised by the Clydebank Trades Council that strike action by women council workers in Glasgow was a shining example of “bottom up trade unionism.”
She said last week’s strike, which came after a decade-long struggle for pay equality at the city council, showed that “just as trickle down economics doesn't work, neither does trickle down feminism.”
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