Nicola Sturgeon is rubbish
Posted by Jack in Uncategorized, tags: edinburgh, elections, SNP, unions
Sturgeon: Doesn't care about bin men
Deputy First Minister had her day campaigning on the streets ruined yesterday by an angry bin man. He hijacked her to demand to know why the SNP government wasn’t doing anything to support bin men facing brutal attacks from the SNP/Liberal coalition that runs Edinburgh City Council.
The bin man, Charlie Docherty, did a pretty good job of explaining what the dispute is all about, with his wages facing a big cut while managers have given themselves pay rises. The council has been been trying to crush the bin men for months, spending millions on private contractors that pick up the rubbish bin men refuse to pick up on public holidays as part of a work to rule.
Sturgeon’s response is to parrot the SNP’s stated policy of freezing pay for those at the top end of the scale to ensure low paid workers don’t face wage cuts. The only problem with this is it isn’t a policy the SNP has applied where it’s in power in Edinburgh. She also keeps saying that it’s up to the council to resolve the dispute (the council your party runs!), and that she doesn’t know the details of the dispute. Charlie’s response is classic: “Are youse the government of Scotland? You need to find out about what’s going on in your own country, eh?”
You can watch a video of the incident on the BBC site here. Leftfield applauds Charlie for taking a stand and calling the SNP out on their supposedly anti-cuts agenda. We hope that the SNP face more attacks over their record on the bin men, until things escalate to this level:
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Hahaha Sturgeon is such an idiot!!! That was pretty painful to watch, she was failing so badly.
think it’s more complicated than just pay cuts, it’s equal pay leglislation which means the council has to bring the pay for traditionally male-dominated, higher paid jobs (ie. binmen) into line with traditionally female-dominated, lower paid jobs (ie. care workers).. rather than raising everyone to a decent wage.
there’s loads of stuff on the dispute here: http://www.edinburghmuckraker.org.uk
Yeah, the dispute as I understand it is about single status, which is what Liam said. It’s an absolute travesty the way that councils throughout Scotland first of all had unequal gender discrimination in the way they paid people, and then forced to do something about it their solution is to cut male pay! But what it amounts to though for the bin men is pay cuts, as far as I can see anyway.
That Muckraker site is dead good. Wish we could get some of our Edinburgh comrades blogging on here!
ffs
“A BIN man was suspended by the council yesterday just minutes after complaining to Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon about the ongoing bin dispute.”
http://www.scotsman.com/news/Nicola-Sturgeon-quiz-gets-bin.6248849.jp