Sultana joins striking workers outside Village Hotel in Govan
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Your Party MP Zarah Sultana addresses the Village Hotel picket, December 19, 2025YOUR PARTY MP Zarah Sultana and dozens of trade unionists braved the wind and rain to join striking workers on the Village Hotel picket in Govan on Thursday night.
Workers at the site made history over the summer with the first strike at a major hotel chain since 1979, winning equal pay with colleagues in Edinburgh.
But they returned to the picket line last month in a bid to win a minimum of the real living wage for all workers, regardless of age.
Unite convener Daniel Friel told the rally: “Village are more than happy to spend lots of money throughout this dispute bussing up workers from across the UK to cover the work that we would have been doing.
“This is hugely expensive for them, it’s a lot more expensive than it would be just to pay us equally at the new living wage, but they would rather do that because it avoids, from their perspective, a dangerous precedent.
“They know that as soon as we get it in Glasgow, we’re going to move across other sites in the UK.”
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