1st July 2008
Ballots for industrial action underway in Scottish Local Government and Scottish Government staff.
Four of Scotland’s largest unions have launched ballots for industrial action in response to unacceptable pay offers from local and Scottish Government.
In local government GMB, UNISON and UNITE will ballot members in July.
The Public Commercial Services union is calling on its members to support a two day strike against the Scottish Government’s Public Sector Pay Policy, which allows only 2% in the cost of living increase.
2nd July 2008
The ICL Public Inquiry investigating the circumstances that led to the deaths of nine people on May 11 2004 gets underway at Community Central Halls on 2 July.
Many of the families of the workers who died have been supported in their fight for the widest possible inquiry as to why they lost their loved ones and as to why the events of May 11 at the ICL factory in Maryhill can have such a devastating effect on the lives of the bereaved and injured.
Daily reports will be provided and can be found on the
Inquiry website
8th July 2008
STUC raises concerns that Black and Minority Ethnic workers will suffer particularly badly as the economic downturn continues.
10th July 2008
The STUC has welcomed the IPPR contribution to debate on the funding of devolution
16th July 2008
The STUC has called for support for public sector workers taking industrial action in defence of living standards.
17th July 2008
The STUC has today called for fairer local tax bands and to retain a property tax, rejecting the Scottish Government’s current 'Local Income Tax' plans which would remove accountability and be financially unsustainable.
17th July 2008
STUC today welcomed the decision of the European Court of Justice to uphold the right of a woman who was denied time off work to look after her disabled son.
22nd July 2008
Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) in both the Scottish Government and Registers of Scotland have voted for industrial action in opposition to Scottish Ministers pay policy.
23rd July 2008
The first stage of the Public Inquiry into the explosion at the ICL plastics factory in Maryhill, more commonly referred to as Stockline, on May 11 2004 has now concluded.
24th July 2008
Linda Shanahan from the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives and Ian Tasker from the STUC presented two workshops on preventing workplace violence to the 2008 UK Hazards Conference at Keele University 19th to 20th July 2008.
