Published: Wednesday, 11th November, 2009 1:00pm

Helping low paid workers

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AT last week's council meeting SNP councillors voted against a Labour motion, which if passed would have seen the introduction of a £7 per hour minimum wage for some of the lowest paid workers in our area.

This policy would potentially have helped to bring the lowest paid workers in the council up to a decent standard of living.

This, however, will not happen now thanks to SNP councillors, who have betrayed these workers.

Labour run Glasgow City Council has introduced a similar policy which has raised the wage of their lowest paid workers to £7 per hour yet the SNP council in West Dunbartonshire does not see fit to implement the same policy here.

As the Labour motion stated the introduction of the £7 per hour wage would not have had any effect on equal pay or single status, yet SNP councillors still voted against it.

In the current economic climate the SNP should be doing all that they can to help workers get through.

Instead they stab them in the back and vote against measures that would help improve workers standard of living.

Martin Neill, Alexandria