Ugly Unite Behaviour



I understand that the three 'eejits' who made such fools of themselves and their trade union at last week's meeting with the Council to discuss the WPBR were:

Willie McGonigle, George Murdoch and Stevie Dougall – Unite.

Here's what some of their members (and ex-members) had to say about their antics on Facebook.

Shocking!

M

I'm with unite but changing to unison

C

Disgrace xxx

M

Omg thats shocking thought when they said they where coming out with us on strike it was good for there claimants this is so wrong there clients should all move over to another union and sue them for misrepresenting them how unprofessional are they x

F

Those poor members

S

Shocking way to act when they are getting paid by the union

E

Also they are £14-£15 per month to join them and they can’t fight for their members? Shocking! Glad I switched a while ago. X

S

I’m with them,defo moving to unison

L

Omg what shud i do can i move to unison x

G

Yes wouldn't stay with a union not prepared to fight for me x

J

A Joke!! Mx

R

Im with unite 😡what do i do to cancel membership and go with Unison

M

I'm with unite but changing to unison I'm meeting the Rep on Tuesday at McDonald's in Easter house at 11.30

C

Bloody joke

E

Disgraceful. They should be ashamed of themselves

L

Got a meaningless letter of them yesterday in my branch from shop steward to full time officials i think they have all joined a new order and taken a vow of silence jokers

J

These are the ones that try to ride on the coat tails of yourselves stefan,bloodshed the lot of them,shame for the claimants. Says it all when they walk out after 5 minsx

D


  



Ugly Unite Behaviour (06/05/18)



Stefan Cross posted this update from Friday's meeting between the Claimants and the City Council to discuss the WPBR.

Now anyone who knows Karl Bromley, knows that you could not find a more helpful, decent  or obliging person.

Karl has not only done sterling work for Glasgow's equal pay claimants, he did the same in North Lanarkshire recently, over equal pay pension calculations, and his efforts benefited all of the claimant organisations, GMB and Unison members, as well as clients of A4ES. 

So it's rather galling that union 'goons' from Unite (which has played no role in the long fight for equal pay, as Stefan explains) should turn up at important Glasgow WPBR meeting and make fools of themselves in this way.

If needs be, I'll go along to a future meeting and wipe the floor with the clowns and once I find out the names of the individuals involved, I'll post the information on the blog site.    

Dis-UNITE-d

Strange events this week. As you know the claimant group consists of A4ES UNISON and GMB. It does not include UNITE. 


Indeed unite has virtually no involvement in the claims at all. They have very few claims at all, and even those tiny number of claims they basically passed to solicitors and ignored them. They have not attended any of the tribunals, just travelling on the coat tails of whoever Thompsons solicitors were representing at the time.

Despite this they are a recognised trade union and we agreed that they should be part of the sub group discussing WPBR and new terms and conditions.

The first meeting of that group took place yesterday. So what contribution did UNITE make to this group. Nothing THEY WALKED OUT OF THE MEETING in the first 5 minutes. 


Why? 

Because a Karl Bromley was there representing A4ESs 7500 claimants! So 3 unite officials abandoned their members in a fit of meaningless pique. How pathetic is that!

The truth is that unite has a non existent record on equal pay, mostly trying to avoid it. In England they refused to participate in single status as they thought it would erode the differentials for their male members. Of all the major trade unions they have the Worst Gender Pay Gap and 75% of the senior officers are men. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised but I was.

So to sum up, Unite’s total involvement so far has been to attend one meeting and walk out in less than 5 minutes. Impressive! 


Stefan Cross



  


Glasgow's 'Unfit For Purpose' WPBR (05/05/18)


The Claimants Side shared the following statement with the Council at yesterday's 'work stream' meeting to discuss the WPBR.

For some reason the Council Side keeps asking the Claimants to make a case for getting rid of the WPBR even though Scotland's highest civil court, the Court of Session, condemned the scheme as 'unfit for purpose' in August 2017.

I understand the Claimants told the Council there is no point in having further  'work stream' meetings until GCC makes a firm decision to scrap the WPBR.

If the Council 'gets serious' and agrees to scrap the WPBR, both sides can get down to the serious business of finding a replacement and agreeing how new pay arrangements which command the support of the council workforce will come into effect.

So let's hope the Council comes to its senses soon.
  1. The claimant side has a joint position on pay equality at Glasgow and this statement reflects the view of all claimant agencies working within the Terms of Reference for equal pay settlement.
  1. Our shared purpose in participating in this group is to participate in a joint process to deliver pay equality and a secure transition from WPBR to an equality proofed scheme.
  1. There is no WPBR question to be addressed by this group. It cannot be preserved, with or without amendment.
  1. The Council’s pay system was also the subject of a clear and unequivocal ruling by the Court of Session. The Court concluded that WPBR is not a valid JES. Crucially, the Court also concluded that there is ample evidence to support the view that evaluations under WPBR arenot suitable to be relied on.
  1. As part of the implementation of WPBR, Glasgow City Council introduced Non Standard Working Pattern (NSWP) pay whereby employees received additional pay for working hours and patterns deemed by GCC to be 'non-standard'.  These payments were calculated according to the number of points awarded to an employee under the NSWP Payment Matrix (a copy of which is enclosed). 
  1. It is the Claimants' position that the operation of the NSWP Payment Matrix is indirectly discriminatory in relation to sex as it has a disparate impact on female employees and cannot meet the test of objective justification on operational or any other grounds.  In addition some NSWP payments apply to jobs done only by men and on that basis the Claimants argue these payments are directly discriminatory on grounds of sex.
  1. Statistics disclosed by GCC show that in 2007, men working for GCC were more than three times as likely to receive NSWP than women:
    1. 60.3% of men were in receipt of NSWP pay, compared with 18.9% of women;
    2. the proportion of men receiving NSWP pay at levels B, C and D was significantly higher at each level than the proportion of women;
    3. on a pro-rated basis, the average annual NSWP payment was £847.32 for men and £223.02 for women i.e. women received on average £624.29 a year less than their male counterparts.
  1. Features of the NSWP Payment Matrix which are directly and/or indirectly discriminatory because of sex include:
  1. The requirement to work 37 hours a week. Under the Red Book, a full-time working week comprises 37 hours. The NSWP Payment Matrix assumes that 35 hours are “core hours” and awards 7 points to employees who work 37 hours a week.  Male employees are far more likely to work under 37 hour contracts than women.
  1. The claimant group demand an unequivocal statement that both WPBR and NSWP will be replaced, not amended, refined, updated just replaced.
  1. All jobs will be re-evaluated using a new JES scheme to be agreed ASAP.
  1. A new pay and grading system based on the new JES to be agreed. Enhancements for non-standard working to return to being based on basic pay and to remove unjustified gender disadvantages, such as favouring full time over part time work. 
  1. We believe that as a result of the EHRC investigation the council has known that the current system is discriminatory and unjustified and if the council continues to seek to maintain or amend the current system full disclosure is made of all EHRC materials including all officer consideration of such materials 

  

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