Malcolm Cunning has been deposed as the leader of the Labour group on Glasgow City Council after the party lost another local election to the SNP.
27.04.2022 - 07:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Labour’s candidate to lead Glasgow City Council has apologised for his party’s role in the long-running equal pay scandal.
Malcolm Cunning said he understood why some female workers denied fair wages feel let down by Labour.
He also indicated that the local authority may have to remortgage more properties in a bid to meet outstanding claims.
Councillor Cunning, who first joined Labour in the late 1970s, is going head-to-head with the SNP’s Susan Aitken to run Glasgow after May’s election.
The SNP took control of the city chambers in 2017 after decades of Labour rule and Cunning is determined to win back the city.
Central to his party’s manifesto is addressing what one trade union leader described as the “filthy” state of the city.
Cunning, who represents the Linn ward, said: “It’s cleanliness, it’s bin uplift, it’s rubbish on the street, it’s potholes.”
“We certainly are looking to invest both money and people into addressing those issues.
"We’ve lost 269 frontline staff from cleansing in the city in the past five years. We will put 250 as a minimum back in. We will also invest £6m over three years in a cleaner, greener Glasgow project.”
He is also critical of Aitken’s leadership: “Over the past five years councillor Aitken has been particularly cloth-eared, both to the concerns of citizens and, perhaps even more harmful, some of the stuff that she’s said about our own staff and our own trade unions has actually undermined the work of the council.”
However, the legacy of Labour’s record running the city is also an issue in May’s election.
When Cunning’s party last ran Glasgow, the Labour administration failed to resolve the thousands of equal pay claims made by female council workers.
Aitken’s administration, by contrast, came
Malcolm Cunning has been deposed as the leader of the Labour group on Glasgow City Council after the party lost another local election to the SNP.
The Labour leader on Glasgow Council is facing a challenge for his job after his party lost another election to the SNP.
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