Mind the Gap! (31/05/14)



While Labour's Scottish secretary, Margaret Curran, is banging on about the responsibilities of the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments she could do well to reflect up the fact that North Lanarkshire Council has been forced to concede a 60% pay gap between equivalent male and female jobs, as the result of hidden bonus schemes. 

Now that's something worth getting worked up about if you ask me, so when are we going to hear what Labour politicians have to say about the behaviour of a Labour-run council - right in their own backyard?

Soon, I hope. 

Rank Hypocrisy (29 May 2014)



Labour's shadow Scottish secretary, Margaret Curran, held an event the other day marking the 44th anniversary of the 1970 Equal Pay Act.

Such a pity that Margaret, a Glasgow MP, didn't hold this event in Motherwell which is only a few miles down the road and home to one of Scotland largest councils, North Lanarkshire Council, which is up to its neck in an equal pay scandal right in Labour's backyard.

Here's some of what Margaret Curran had to say, as reported in the press:

"The Equal Pay Act was a success for the Labour movement across the whole of the UK. From the first women who went on strike in Scotland for equal pay in 1943 to the famous strike at Ford in Dagenham in 1968. But since 2010, progress has stalled.

"Under the Tories, the pay gap in Scotland has started to widen again. And from the SNP and the Scottish Government, we see complacency and a total lack of ambition." 

Now I plan to write to Margaret Curran to point out how ridiculous her behaviour is and I will make a point of inviting her to join the ongoing campaign to knock some sense into Labour-run North Lanarkshire Council because this is rank hypocrisy if you ask me.

Let's see what she has to say for herself and if anyone else would like to join me, here is Margaret Curran's email address at the House of Commons 

margaret.curran.mp@parliament.uk

Maybe I'll invite her along to one of the A4ES meetings in North Lanarkshire. 

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