A number of Trade Union representatives will stage a socially distant demonstration today outside the Glasgow City Chambers to protest cuts to funding for jobs and services.
Unite says the demonstration – which will be socially distanced – is aimed at "highlighting the financial crisis facing key services provided by Local Government."
Ahead of the protest, Unite’s Wendy Dunsmore said: “Over the last decade Glasgow City Council has made around £500M in cuts to jobs and services.
"The people of Glasgow, the services which they rely on and the workers who provide them are not to blame for this crisis but it is they who have borne the brunt of these industrial scale cutbacks.”
“Local authorities also face a £739m funding shortfall due to COVID-19 with an expectation of it being closer to £1bn by the end of the year.
"What is required now is a fair funding model for local government, and in particular for those areas facing greater economic, transport and health challenges such as Glasgow.
"The position whereby tens of millions of cuts to vital services are made every year is unsustainable, unfair and unacceptable, and it just piles pressures on to a workforce already stretched bare thin.”
The protest starts at 1pm.
