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UNITE has labelled drinks company Diageo the “poster-child for insatiable corporate greed,” as Scottish workers launch a series of strikes against a real-terms pay cut.
More than 1,000 workers at the booze giant’s Cameron Bridge and Leven sites will walk out today and tomorrow, followed by further strikes over the next 10 days at Shieldhall.
They are angry that management refused to negotiate a better pay rise than the current 2.8 per cent, which is a real-terms pay cut.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
