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Members of Scotland’s political parties have clashed over the issue of banning “fire and rehire” practices with two weeks to go until the Holyrood election. The topic was just one from a number of issues raised during an online hustings hosted by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) on Monday evening. Questions were asked by members of various trade unions including Katrina Copeland, a GMB member and Centrica employee who said staff there were issued with an S188 notice seven months ago. She said the business “wanted to basically annihilate our current terms and conditions”, wi...

Members of Scotland’s political parties have clashed over the issue of banning “fire and rehire” practices with two weeks to go until the Holyrood election. The topic was just one from a number of issues raised during an online hustings hosted by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) on Monday evening. Questions were asked by members of various trade unions including Katrina Copeland, a GMB member and Centrica employee who said staff there were issued with an S188 notice seven months ago. She said the business “wanted to basically annihilate our current terms and conditions”, wi...

Members of Scotland’s political parties have clashed over the issue of banning “fire and rehire” practices with two weeks to go until the Holyrood election. The topic was just one from a number of issues raised during an online hustings hosted by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) on Monday evening. Questions were asked by members of various trade unions including Katrina Copeland, a GMB member and Centrica employee who said staff there were issued with an S188 notice seven months ago. She said the business “wanted to basically annihilate our current terms and conditions”, wi...

ON the one hand we have a Conservative and Colonial party ex-MSP publicly state that laws need to be passed to ensure Scotland stays in the UK, thus taking us from a country joined in a Union to a country of near colony status. Such action would of course completely rip up the findings of the Smith Commission report, which then leaves a small number of conclusions to be had from the statement by Adam Tomkins: 1. He has never read the Smith Commission Report so has no idea what he is talking about. 2. He knows exactly what is in the Smith Commission Report but has not a care for it becau...

Comment No party but Nicola Sturgeon's SNP is even pretending it can win the election on May 6 PLEASE God, let this be the last Holyrood election fought in the constitutional Limboland of devolution. Despite the best efforts of manifesto-makers, speech-writers and party leaders, little in this campaign feels animated, whole-hearted or terribly hopeful, except as a harbinger of the step towards independence. And that’s not just because half of Scotland is already keen to move on, but because Holyrood increasingly stands revealed as a halfway house – not big, exciting or inspiring enoug...