Glasgow City Council trade union members are to strike for two days later this month over an equal pay dispute.
The workers, overwhelmingly women, will strike on March 29 and 30 in calls for equal pay compensation payments. They will then strike again in April if there is no resolution.
UNISON is calling on its nearly 9,000 members and, with their sister trade union also joining the action, it could see over 12,000 workers out on strike.
It will affect home care, cleaning, catering, schools, nurseries, residential homes, homelessness hostels, addiction services and admin functions across the council.
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Kath Stirling, UNISON Branch Chair, said: " The purpose of the strike action is to force the council to maintain the current arrangements for equal pay compensation payments. These were won after the last strike but the council is moving to tear-up those arrangements. This could see smaller payments for some and others left out completely.
"There is no moral or political justification for such an approach. These are the same women, in the same jobs still being paid under the same discriminatory gender pay scheme. The women and their jobs haven't changed so why should the compensation arrangements."
"We say no dumping of the 2019 deal. No exclusions."
The deal previously agreed saw compensation payments made on March 31, 2018 to 14,000 claimants. The council now saying that another 5,000 new claims will be brought up to that date.
However, UNISON has argued as the new pay and grading scheme is not due to be implemented until at least 2024, the women are entitled to further pay outs.
Ms Stirling continued: "We have been fighting for equal pay justice for years in the courts, workplaces and streets. We have fought previous council administrations and we have fought this one.
"We are not going away until the council meets its obligations to women in this city."
