CCTV and community safety workers in Glasgow will go on strike again this weekend in an ongoing dispute over pay.

Employees of Community Safety Glasgow (CSG) are objecting to a new pay scheme involving the level of proposed shift payments and will continue industrial action over bonfire weekend.

More than 100 employees of the arms-length company of Glasgow City Council are all members of trade unions Unison and GMB.

It will be the seventh weekend strike of the escalating pay row.

The unions claim CSG is trying to pay their workers less than other Glasgow City Council staff for working in the evenings, at night and over the weekend.

The strike this weekend will coincide with Guy Fawkes Night and will also affect the Community Payback Service at the weekend, with court placements being cancelled once again.

The workers do a range of jobs and include advocacy workers, community payback workers, community enforcement officers, community enhancement workers, security assistants and CCTV workers.

Benny Rankin, GMB Scotland officer, said: "Our members will be continuing their weekly stoppages which will include disruption to services at the weekends and the up and coming Guy Fawkes weekend.

"There are also calls from our members to increase the dispute to withdraw services for the full two weeks at the Christmas and New Year period.

"Our dispute is just and not unreasonable. We ask once again that the Glasgow Labour Administration get involved and resolve this dispute"

Brian Smith, Unison Glasgow secretary, said: "The trade unions believe that the CSG payment levels are far too low compared to those in other parts of the Glasgow City Council family.

"For example, the night-shift payment in the council is almost double that which CSG intend to pay.

"The proposed payments do not adequately compensate workers who undertake shifts and our members have been left with no option other than to take strike action."

Cllr Frank McAveety, Glasgow City Council leader, said: "This is pick and mix trade union negotiation. Unison wants high core pay and then the highest shift allowances.

"At a time when the poorest in Glasgow are having benefits slashed by hundreds of pounds wage rises in the thousands are not good enough for the Unison leaders.

"They are putting the jobs of their members at risk and the lives of the Glasgow public at risk on what is a strike on Guy Fawkes weekend.

"Almost all the union workers called out have already signed up to the new contracts and many have had salary increases for the next year running into thousands and thousands of pounds. You could not make this up.

"A CCTV operator called out on strike this week will have a £5000 hike in their wages by this time next year - to £25000. That's a 30% increase and Unison is calling these staff out on strike.

"A graffiti team operator by this time next year gets a £3000 increase to £20,000. A 20% increase - out on strike. Why have the Unison leaders called a strike? It is totally unjustified, reckless and the politics of Alice in Wonderland."