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GLASGOW COUNCIL TO SACK AND REHIRE 23,000 STAFF AFTER PAY TALKS COLLAPSE

FRI 25 SEP 2026

Glasgow City Council plans to dismiss more than 23,000 non-teaching staff and rehire them on new contracts, the council has confirmed. Letters notifying staff of the move are due to be sent out next week, with the new contracts taking effect from 1 January. The council said the decision followed the collapse of pay talks with the GMB, Unison and Unite unions on Wednesday, after Unison said it would not ballot its members on a proposed new pay offer. The dismissal notices will cover every member of non-teaching staff, including chief executive Susanne Millar, nursery staff and refuse collectors. The unions described the move as a "scandalous threat" and demanded it be withdrawn.

The dispute centres on the council's plan to introduce a new pay and grading system, which it says is intended to replace a structure found to discriminate against mostly women workers. The council said 11% of employees would see their wages cut under the new arrangement, while pay would rise or stay the same for the remaining 90% of staff. It said it would withdraw the redundancy notices if the three unions agreed to put the pay offer to a ballot of their members. Colin Edgar, the council's director of communications and corporate governance, said Unison had betrayed its own members by declining to hold a ballot, and that there was now "no agreed way forward" between the council and the unions.

Edgar said the council had "gone as far as it can" and that the new scheme would remove unequal pay while leaving its overall pay bill substantially higher. He said pay protection for affected staff had been extended from six months to 12 months following negotiations with the unions. The dispute follows a warning from the council earlier this month that it faced a £110m budget gap. A government minister has said both sides need to return to the negotiating table to resolve the dispute. It is not yet clear whether the unions will agree to ballot their members before the new contracts are due to begin on 1 January.

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