00:00 [Music]
00:05 Where are we from?
00:06 BNP!
00:07 Where do we work for?
00:08 Here!
00:09 My name's Cath Stirling, I'm the branch chair of Glasgow City Unison.
00:12 We're here today with regards to this rubbish pay offer, how to dispute it.
00:19 We need the pay gap closed.
00:21 I work with families who are really struggling, and I try my hardest to help these families out.
00:27 But actually, the people who need the help are the colleagues I work with.
00:31 They're sitting beside me, some of them can't afford to come in with a cup of tea in their hands.
00:35 Or sometimes a lunch, and we're having to try and help provide that.
00:39 Children in nursery are not getting educated and beyond.
00:42 We need to stand together to sort this out.
00:44 Please Glasgow, help us out. Thank you.
00:47 [Cheering]
00:49 It has been a cold and wet morning already.
00:53 I just want to say thank you to every single Unison member who has continued the fight for fair pay for all local government workers across Scotland.
01:03 Your tenacity and resolve to improve the pay offer is outstanding.
01:11 And as others have said, there will be more strike action next week.
01:17 And just before this rally took place, we just served notice on another five local authorities for the 15th.
01:25 [Cheering]
01:27 Now, I want to reassure you of something, because I know that you would much prefer to be in classrooms supporting children's education like you do every single day,
01:40 rather than getting drenched outside them on picket lines.
01:44 I just want you to know, your Unison negotiators are working round the clock to try to get a negotiated settlement to this dispute.
01:54 As long as you keep telling us that this pay rise and this pay offer is not good enough,
02:00 then Scotland's trade union movement will stand behind you in solidarity for the fight that you're taking forward.
02:06 So solidarity and greetings from right across Scotland's trade union movement.
02:11 We need a pay rise. Can I afford to do what we put my hat on tonight? Probably not.
02:16 As we know, as we said earlier on, it's a political choice. It's a political choice that they've done.
02:21 Local government has been decimated for years.
02:25 All you out there that were on the picket lines and other council workers are working harder.
02:29 Staff haven't been replaced. Services have been shut down.
02:33 And then they're telling you, don't ask for any more, when you've been forced to do that.
02:38 Don't let anyone say that your fight is not just, because it absolutely is.
02:42 And we're not going to go anywhere.
02:44 [Cheering]
02:48 What do we want?
02:49 Fair pay!
02:50 When do we want it?
02:51 Now!
02:52 [Music]
02:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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