One of the highlights of SSP conference was the lunchtime address from strikers.
Alison Kelly, secretary of the Day Care UNISON stewards, explained why she and 260 other care workers in the city are taking indefinite strike action after their wages and pensions have been threatened and qualifications ignored as their employer implements single status.
They are being supported by many carers, parents and service users who are well aware that day service workers were reluctant to strike and thus withdraw services from vulnerable people but were forced to do so wy a neartiess council.
Low paid workers were faced with losses of between £3,000-£6,000 per anum and the loss of 50 jobs.
Service users themselves were directly under attack too with proposals that seven out of the twelve centres they use should be closed, their transport services cut and their £1 per week allowance stopped. No wonder they support the workers action.
The solidarity that this has generated has been demonstrated in several vibrant demonstrations through Glasgow's streets making clear to the councillors that they have a fight on their hands.
They should be standing shoulder to shoulder with the users and workers to win adequate funding off the Scottish government to maintain and improve the service - without a penny off worker's pay or a single job cut or closure.
Alison was followed by two posta workers trom Edinburgh, who had been involved in extensive unofficial action as well as the official dispute, thanked the party for the support they had offered.
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