‘Equal Pay or we Walk Away’: Litigation and Industrial Action in the Glasgow City Council Equal Pay Dispute
通过口述史访谈，分析2016-2018年格拉斯哥市议会同工同酬争议中工会从诉讼转向劳工行动的关键事件，揭示法律与工业策略结合对达成和解的作用。
ABSTRACT This article demonstrates the uneven development of trade union strategies on equal pay within UK local government through an examination of the shift from litigation to industrial action in the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute. It analyses new oral history interviews with key actors involved in the Glasgow City Council dispute (union officials, grassroots activists, lawyers) to identify four critical incidents between 2016 and 2018 that prompted trade unions (particularly the GMB) to prioritise equal pay. It considers the extent to which equal pay legislation has acted as a resource for or barrier to achieving equal pay and concludes that the combination of legal and industrial strategies was central to reaching a settlement in the Glasgow City Council dispute.