Stefan Cross is the UK's leading equal pay lawyer - Stefan Cross Solicitors and Action 4 Equality have successfully challenged the employer/union establishment - over their failure to tackle the widespread pay discrimination that continues to blight a great many of jobs done predominantly by female council workers. Stefan worked previously for Thompsons - the external lawyers that advise Unison - and built his reputation there fighting some of the landmark equal pay cases in the UK courts.
Mark Irvine is the organiser and spokesperson for Action 4 Equality in Scotland - and is now planning a similar campaign in London. Mark knows London well having lived and worked there for years - as a full-time trade union official with NUPE, which merged with two other unions in 1993 to become Unison. Mark is now an independent consultant, but worked at the highest levels of the trade union movement for 25 years. Mark is a freelance writer (amongst other things) and writes a widely read blog site about equal pay in Scotland - which has a wealth of background information and can be read at www.action4equalityscotland.blogspot.com
Mark and Stefan are determined to let council workers in London know just how badly they've been let down by the employers and the trade unions. For years they've talked about the importance of equal pay - then provided over a discredited system that pays carers and classroom assistants thousands of pounds a year less than refuse workers.
No harm intended to the refuse workers - but if they're worth £9, £10 and £11 per hour - why aren't all the female dominated council jobs worth just the same?
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