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NUJ union members in Glasgow took three days of strike action last weekend, crippling the production of the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail. They struck against proposals for 70 redundancies and are escalating their action with a further strike ballot on a change to shift patterns.

The fight to defend workers facing wage cuts within Glasgow City Unison received a setback last week when a branch-wide ballot for action was lost.

The campaign to defend Glasgow schools escalated this week when parents from Our Lady of the Assumption (OLA) in Ruchill along with parents from the Wyndford school staged a rooftop protest on their school on Monday.

Members of the NUJ journalists’ union at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspapers in Glasgow are stepping up their fight against job losses with a 72-hour strike.

Council workers in Glasgow were awaiting the results of a strike ballot over pay protection as Socialist Worker went to press.

The Glasgow community service supervisors’ strike is now in its 15th week and the city-wide Unison union branch ballot is continuing.

Journalists taking part in a one-day strike at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow organised a rally after it was announced that up to 24 staff members faced compulsory redundancy.

Occupations by parents at two Glasgow schools threatened with closure have entered their second week—and put local councillors on the defensive.

The madness of the privatisation of council housing services was brought into stark focus last week as 235 maintenance workers in Glasgow were temporarily left without an employer.

A major dispute in Glasgow council escalated this week as around 10,000 workers in the Unison union began a ballot for action.

Journalists at Glasgow-based tabloids, the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail, are due to strike for a second time on Friday of this week.