Bill Ramsay

AS convener of the SNP Trade Union Group I was appalled by the recent article in The National quoting an unnamed SNP source taking issue with a decision of Unison’s Local Government Negotiating Committee regarding strike action ...

SCOTLAND is effectively facing three crises in one: a massive cost of living surge, a significant budget squeeze affecting central and local government, and rightful pressure from public sector workers and others to reverse real-terms cuts in wages in the light of soaring inflation.

WHERE unions have resorted or threaten to resort to strike action in the recent period, some in the independence movement have jumped to the conclusion that the threats or indeed the strikes themselves are part of a Unionist plot.