Striking care workers in Scotland demand equal pay as they stage rally
STRIKING care workers from three Scottish council areas staged a joint rally for equal pay today as their union insisted that they must not be accused of putting key services at risk by being “greedy.”
Home carers in Falkirk launched four days of strikes last Friday and their colleagues at Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire councils were set to join a mass walkout yesterday.
The row comes after care workers, who are mostly low-paid women, rejected internal reviews of their pay grades, arguing that their responsibilities have significantly increased.
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