Council

SNP in power: anti-austerity or let’s not rock the boat?

August 17, 2015 // 1 Comment

Colin Turbett reports Until earlier this year, I was involved as a UNISON activist in responding each year to my council employer’s budget proposals. In 2012, as elsewhere in Scotland, this changed ...

Service Tax challenge to council austerity budgets

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Calum Martin, Edinburgh South & Midlothian SSP Council chambers across Scotland must be echoing with the sound of grating steel this week, as one after another, council administrations have ...

Defy all cuts: there is an alternative

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The contrast could not be starker. As the people of Greece give a resounding NO! to austerity, the councillors of Scotland are poised to vote YES to ...

Scottish Gypsy Travellers face continued discrimination

July 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Roseanna McPhee and Colin Turbett Scotland’s longest standing ethnic minority, the Scottish Gypsy Traveller community, face continued discrimination despite the recognition in recent years of ...