Dozens of strikers demonstrated outside Glasgow City Council chambers today in a protest over pay grades.

 

Around 70 homeless case workers, who have been on strike for over a week, carried banners demanding 'fair pay now' as they urged council bosses to talk to them at lunchtime.

Trades union Unison also placed their own table outside the door of the chambers after claiming council bosses were not negotiating.

Ian Leech of Unison said: "This is a last resort for the strikers, they do not want to be on strike but they feel they have no choice.

"We are asking Glasgow City Council to get round the table and talk to us.

"The workers feel let down that the council is not negotiating."

The demonstration followed one last week when the workers paraded at the back of the chambers having gone on "indefinite" strike in a row over the pay grades of the homeless case workers.

Unison argues they do work similar to other council employees who are on a higher pay grade, earning around £5,000 a year more.