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‘Deliver us some respect on the job’
Living Ambitions staff are taking action over underpayment and the company’s failure to provide them with pay slips, writes CONRAD LANDIN

“WE listen. We respect. We deliver.” That’s the message on the website of Lifeways, which describes itself as “one of the UK’s leading providers of support services for people with diverse and often complex needs in community settings.”

But at Living Ambitions, a Glasgow-based subsidiary of Lifeways, workers feel anything but respected and listened to — and they’re waiting for the delivery of their wages.

This week, at a demonstration organised by their union GMB, workers demanded bosses come down from their ivory tower — the striking former Templeton carpet factory by Glasgow Green — and accept a collective grievance from over 40 workers. 

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