Glasgow Subway staff are set to strike on the day of Rangers' first residence recreation of the season. The strike will start on the day the Gers tackle Kilmarnock at Ibrox.
Motion comes after 99 per cent of Unite members voted in favour of the walk-out over being known as in to work shifts at brief discover amid rota points. Every day of strike motion is ready to final 24 hours.
Day one falls on Saturday August 6, sparking potential hassle for Rangers followers. The opposite three dates are Tuesday August 9, Saturday August 13 and Saturday August 27, experiences Glasgow Stay.
August 13 can also be the penultimate day of Piping Stay within the metropolis centre whereas I Am A Raver is on at Basic Grand, situated close to St Enoch station.
Tradition vultures headed for Ando-Glaso Roma Cultural Pageant on Sauchiehall Road or Refuweegee's We Belong to Glasgow occasion at Oran Mor within the west finish by subway on August 27 could have to make various preparations, too.
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) have enforced modifications to obligation schedules, sparking anger amongst staff who say it has been 'detrimental to work-life steadiness'.
Discussions with SPT have 'failed to present members assurances over household tasks' in line with Unite.
The union represents over 200 members at SPT together with practice drivers and station workers, 83 per cent of them turned up for the poll. Willie Thomson, Unite's industrial officer, mentioned the walk-out is a 'final resort'.
He informed Glasgow Stay: “The strike poll is a final resort for a hardworking and constant workforce. Repeatedly the employees have gone above and past by protecting the subway working throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and thru a time of great workers pressures.
"Our members are indignant concerning the unfair obligation rosters which have resulted in imposed shift modifications at brief discover. That is detrimental to our members’ work life steadiness.
"SPT ought to be in little question as to our members’ willpower to have these rosters modified.” SPT have been contacted for remark.
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