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Glasgow council targets union over equal pay solidarity strikers
Women march on the first day of the strike for equal pay

SNP council chiefs came under fire today for threatening workers refusing to cross picket lines with Tory anti-union laws.

Brave male dustbin workers, street cleaners and parking wardens in Glasgow refused to clock on while women working as care workers, cleaners, and school-dinner ladies picketed outside their depots over equal pay.

On the second day of a 48-hour strike the solidarity action expanded to more waste depots in Scotland’s largest city.

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