Sunderland care workers seek equal pay love on Valentine’s Day

Care workers across the city are asking Sunderland City Council to show them some love and end pay and pension discrimination this Valentine’s Day.

This Valentine’s Day dozens of care workers will gather at Sunderland City Hall to deliver a clear message to council leaders: ‘Treat us with love and stop discriminating against us’.

It will be on 14th February from 12 noon to 1pm at Sunderland City Hall, Plater Way in Sunderland.

Women workers will be delivering large Valentine’s cards to the authority and asking them to pay up.

For almost eighteen months, workers at Sunderland Care And Support (SCAS), have been fighting for equal pay.

Sunderland’s leadership failed to negotiate with GMB and legal claims have now been lodged – but in some cases workers are dying before their cases are heard.

GMB, the only union campaigning for equal pay in Sunderland, will continue with a high-profile, determined campaign against the council.

With Birmingham City Council finally settling their own long running pay dispute, GMB calls on Sunderland Council to do the right thing and deliver on equal pay.