Redbridge News

According to our clients in Redbridge, the council is putting it about that there's no money set aside to pay for implementing Single Status.

So, the less than subtle message to the workforce is: "Don't get your hopes up!"

Now this is exactly why people should bang in an equal pay claim - because the employers and the trade unions are now trying to introduce Single Status on the cheap.

In many parts of the country, the employers and trade unions have gone to the workforce with an agreed Single Status package - only for union members to reject what's on offer - when they realise they're being invited to buy a pig in a poke.

In North Lanarkshire and Fife councils - to name but two councils in Scotland - the trade unions did the employers dirty work by recommending their members to accept lousy Single Status deals.

But the workforce saw through what was happening and voted against the their union leaders advice.

The employers always say the cupboard is bare - and that they don't have enough money to pay up. Don't believe what they say - they've had 10 long years to plan for Single Status and how to end their discriminatory pay and grading structures.

If they introduce new arrangements that are just as bad as the old ones - the employers are open to challenge. And so are the unions - if they're foolish enough agree to such proposals.

Our advice is not to trust people who have failed to keep their promises for all these years - they'll just try and cheat you out of what you're really due.

So, don't delay - demand equal pay today!