An Ayrshire girl has outlined her priorities going ahead — after being named the primary feminine Scottish Secretary of UNISON.
Tracey Dalling, who grew up in Prestwick, made historical past on Tuesday when she landed the function on Worldwide Ladies’s Day.
Ayrshire commerce union members will bear in mind Tracey effectively from a bust-up she and different members had with South Ayrshire Council again in 2017, because the union and the native authority fought a bitter combat over savage finances cuts.
Ms Dalling takes the reigns from Mike Kirby, who retired after a long time of service.
She stated: “I've represented UNISON members in Scotland for a few years and I stay up for persevering with to take action in my new function.
”We could also be rising from the pandemic, however it's the begin of one other large interval of change as our members are additional pressed by pay and pension squeezes with bleak decisions on managing family payments.”
She added: “UNISON has clear priorities: the disaster in social care and new nationwide care service; funding for native authorities; the staffing disaster within the NHS; truthful pay settlements for all public service employees; defending all our pensions; equal pay; local weather change; and a robust voice for all our public providers and people who ship them.
"I stay up for the problem forward.”
Most lately, Tracey was the Regional Secretary for UNISON’s Better London area.
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Nevertheless, she has been energetic in UNISON Scotland since 1993 and in NALGO earlier than that.
Tracey’s new function follows the current appointment of UNISON UK’s first feminine common secretary, Christina McAnea.
Lilian Macer, UNISON Scotland’s convenor, stated: “I'm wanting ahead to working along with Tracey. She has large expertise and lengthy historical past of standing up for public service employees throughout the nation.”
UNISON is Scotland’s largest public sector commerce union, representing greater than 150,000 members, over three quarters of whom are girls.
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