TRNSMT SUBWAY STRIKES

Glasgow festival to be hit with walkouts

- BY LUCINDA CAMERON

STRIKE action by Glasgow subway staff will escalate this month when they walk out for an additional three days - during the sell-out TRNSMT festival.

Unite the union announced yesterday that workers will walk out on July 11, 12 and 13 in the dispute over pay and “intolerable” working conditions.

A continuous overtime ban has been in place since June 13.

It comes after three days of strike action last week which saw the subway closed.

The union said that an interim offer made by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) recently was overwhelmingly rejected by the members.

The dispute centres on pay, shift allowances and the SPT employees’ working conditions.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite’s members will no longer accept intolerable working conditions.