{
  "id": 11893180,
  "title": "Glasgow council workers face pay cuts in fire-and-rehire plan after union talks break down",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/glasgow-council-workers-face-pay-cuts-in-fire-and-rehire-plan-after",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-04T09:13:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/04/glasgow-council-workers-face-pay-cuts-in-fire-and-rehire-plan-after-union-talks-break-down"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Guardian Business reports that Glasgow council workers face potential pay cuts as a result of a failed union negotiation. Approximately 23,000 employees, all non-teaching staff, were informed of the impending \"fire-and-rehire\" exercise after talks between the SNP-led council and the GMB, Unison, and Unite unions broke down. The negotiations centered around a new pay and grading system aimed at addressing historical pay equality issues, but Unison refused to ballot its members on the proposed offer, which includes pay cuts for 11% of council employees. The council has since issued fire-and-rehire letters, marking one of the UK's largest such exercises.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}