Glasgow Cathouse nightclub staff in health and safety grievance

Staff at one of Scotland’s biggest nightclubs have lodged a grievance over working conditions and health and safety issues.

Several workers at the Cathouse rock club in Glasgow city centre have signed a collective complaint listing 48 separate issues, according to the Unite union.

They include severe mould in the building, toilets flooding, workers having to clean up faeces without proper PPE and infestation of vermin and insects.

The way staff have been treated by senior management has also been cited as an issue.

Unite said that despite receiving notification of a formal grievance 25 days ago, senior management at Hold Fast Entertainment – which owns the club – had failed to meet workers to discuss concerns.

Bryan Simpson, lead organiser for Unite Hospitality, said: “The way in which our members at the Cathouse have been treated for years by senior management at Holdfast is nothing short of a scandal.

“Some of the worst health and safety breaches we’ve ever seen as a union and terrible pay and conditions to boot.

“We need this company to stop burying their head in the sand and to listen to their workers, the vast majority of whom want a collective voice in the workplace.”

The Cathouse launched in 1990 in the now-demolished Hollywood Studios building on Brown Street in Glasgow.

It moved to its current site on Union street in 1997.

Hold Fast Entertainment has been approached for comment.