Scottish Labour criticise SNP for planning to cross Holyrood picket line
dailyrecord.co.ukScottish Labour have criticised the SNP for planning to cross the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union picket line outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday.Staff at Holyrood are among 10,000 Scottish civil servants who are going on strike on Wednesday in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.Scottish Labour and the Green MSPs will not cross the picket line but the SNP have said that their members are expected to work.It comes only days after the SNP attacked the UK Government's Minimum Service Levels Bill as an "attack on workers".Labour MSP Monica Lennon said that it was "the height of hypocrisy" for SNP MSPs not to stand alongside the striking workers.Lennon said: “SNP MSPs will lose credibility on workers' rights if they cross picket lines."It’s the height of hypocrisy that Nicola Sturgeon’s government claims to be strong on fair work principles, but used its majority to schedule parliamentary business on a strike day."The pressure this has heaped on workers at Holyrood is unacceptable."At a time when the Tory UK government is threatening the right to strike, these are not trivial matters."The Welsh Parliament where Labour is in charge is observing the strike.
The SNP and Scottish Green government should have done the same."Working people and their families are being hammered by a cost-of-living crisis they did not create."Scottish Labour MSPs will be supporting our constituents, defending the democratic right to strike, and fighting for fair pay settlements.”An SNP spokesperson said: "The business of government and parliament will go ahead."Scottish Green MSPs will not cross the picket, despite being the SNP's junior partners in the Scottish Government.Green MSP Maggie Chapman said she hoped
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