The Scottish Government has a chance to turn the clock back on 14 years of austerity and rebuild community wealth. But to do so it must invest in local services, end peak fares, deliver free school meals, scrap the small business bonus scheme, and raise revenue from property and wealth taxes.
November 2024
Open letter from Scotland’s largest trade unions, academics, charities and campaign organisations calling on Scotland’s main political party leaders to ‘urgently’ revaluate property across the country as a critical step towards reforming Scotland’s broken system of local property taxation.
April 2024
STUC’s ‘Public Power League’ shows the progress made by local authorities across Scotland to develop their own energy projects. The league tables, which show Aberdeenshire topping the capacity chart with 226 megawatts of energy, and Stirling topping the number of installations chart, aim to show the progress made by local authorities in creating local municipal energy projects.
August 2023
STUC Parliamentary Briefing ahead of Scottish Green Party debate on Budget Priorities
October 2024
