STRIKING janitors are to target the local wards of councillors they accuse of ignoring their call for talks ahead of a new wave of action which will hit Glasgow schools.
The primary school janitors will begin a three-day strike on Wednesday in dispute over extra payments for undertaking duties they say are dirty, unpleasant, involve working outside on a regular basis or heavy lifting.
Accusing their "political masters at Glasgow City Council (of ) treating them with contempt" for refusing to talk with them, the janitors are to distribute 'Wanted' posters in local wards, around the City Chambers and at the headquarters of their employer, the authority's spin-off firm Cordia.
The posters will feature all the councillors who sit on the Cordia board of directors, as well as council leader Frank McAveety.
Sam Macartney, branch officer for the trade union Unison, said: "If we do come across these politicians then we will ask them to get round the negotiating table. They are wanted for talks. Our jannies deserve justice."
More than 100 janitors walked out for three days in March, which led to the cancellation of breakfast clubs.
They are demanding additional Working Context and Demands Payment (WCD) rates which range from £500 to £1000 a year.
Unison members began industrial action on January 19 by refusing to carry out some duties. They then went on strike from March 11 to 13.
The union said it was apologising to parents and carers for the inconvenience caused during the dispute but said "certain practices had come to light" during their strikes which were potentially detrimental for pupils and staff including glass, excrement, drug paraphernalia not being removed from playgrounds and adults entering the school building without signing a school register.
A Cordia spokesman said at the announcement of the latest round of strikes that it had "completely exhausted all internal processes after negotiations with Unison" and was not required to convene a meeting to further negotiate as there was "no possibility of a settlement".
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