Local Government Service Group Conference 13-14 June 2010

Pay stays high on union agenda

Ian Leech

Pay will remain a key priority for the union and it will work to retain and strengthen national pay bargaining. Conference set out a bargaining agenda which will include a minimum wage, affordable childcare, career pathways for staff and investment in workplace learning.

It recognised the challenges facing the union with the government's policy of pay restraint and supported Glasgow City's amendment ensuring that industrial action is considered as one of a range of campaign tactics.

The branch's Ian Leech told conference about the successful action which has been taken in Glasgow in defence of pay and grading. "It is vital that the union can lead its members into effective industrial action whether on pay or cuts."

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