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Glasgow City Council and Unison reach agreement in pay and grading dispute
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Glasgow City Council and the trade union Unison have reached an agreement in a long-running pay and grading dispute, avoiding the need to fire and rehire more than 23,000 staff. The new pay and grading structure aims to resolve underlying equal pay issues affecting women workers. Unison, alongside GMB and Unite, will ballot their members on the deal later this month.
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- Glasgow City Council and Unison reached an agreement over a pay and grading dispute.
- The council confirmed it will not consider firing and rehiring more than 23,000 staff.
- The dispute involved creating a new pay and grading structure to address historical equal pay claims from women workers.
- Unison, GMB and Unite will put the proposals to their members in a ballot later this month.
- Council leader Ricky Bell stated that additional support from the Scottish government helped unlock the agreement.