Bar staff in Glasgow are set to be the first in Scotland to take strike action and will walk out for 48 hours from noon on Friday until Sunday over pay and concerns of health and safety.
Strike action will also coincide with Glasgow’s Fair public holiday over the weekend and bar staff workers will walkout every weekend until 6 August.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite’s members at the 13th Note bar in Glasgow are striking following the failure of the owners to make improvements on pay and on health and safety concerns.
“In what has become one of the first bar workers’ strikes in over 20 years, we support them and hope the owners now recognise the strength of the collective.
“These workers deserve credit for standing up for their rights in an industry that is riding roughshod over staff. Unite will back them 100% in their demands for better pay and safer working conditions.”
Nick Troy, a Unite rep at the 13th Note, said: “The owners of 13th Note should be under no illusion that improvements to wages, health and safety, as well as union recognition, are the only way this rift will be sorted.
“This action is a reflection of our determination to ensure fair treatment. The continuation of the strike action beyond this weekend is not inevitable if the concerns and demands of the workforce are resolved.
“Unite remains hopeful that talks at Acas could avert further action.”
