Union members have suspended next week’s Glasgow equal pay strike.
Thousands of Glasgow City Council workers were set to walk out on 20 and 21 April.
The industrial action has now been suspended though, after a commitment was secured from the council to an equal pay settlement for thousands of union members on the same basis as the landmark 2019 agreement.
Payments to workers who have suffered from discrimination due to its pay and grading system are targeted to begin in October 2022.
The GMB Union pointed out that its mandate for strike action remains live and will be used if the council does not deliver on its promises.
Sean Baillie, GMB Scotland organiser, said: "For GMB members in Glasgow City Council, equal pay justice is a significant step closer.
"The incredible strength and solidarity of GMB members, throughout many years of struggle, has been critical to achieving this progress and securing key commitments from the council.
"We will monitor developments closely, as further details of the implementation of these commitments emerge, and our mandate for strike action remains live."
In a letter to its members on Wednesday, Unison Glasgow City branch said: "The industrial dispute objectives were to force the council to maintain the 2019 deal and agree to make further payments in an acceptable timescale - these objectives have been secured."
Unison’s Scottish secretary Tracey Dalling added: "It is simply unacceptable that women were forced to take their fight all the way to the brink of strike action.
"However we now seem to have reached agreement - there is still hard work to do, but this is good news for everyone across Glasgow."
The local authority agreed to pay out at least £500m in 2019, following a long-running equal pay row. This agreement settled pay claims up until March 2018 and included a new pay and grading system to rectify issues of unequal pay, primarily for women.
Unison said that, since then, around 5,500 new claims have been lodged for the period prior to March 2018, with nearly 20,000 claimants awaiting settlements for the period after that.
In a letter to trade unions, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said the local authority remains "committed to a settlement which has the same basis as the 2019 deal".
A Glasgow City Council spokesman stated: "The council is committed to delivering pay equality and is pleased the planned industrial action has been suspended.
"We will continue to work with trades unions and others representing claimants to deliver a settlement.
"Families and citizens who have previously been contacted about school and nursery closures or other disruption can now expect normal services to be in place."
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