ENGINEERS and scientists are sick of the coalition’s post-hoc policymaking, a gathering of trade unionists in Glasgow will hear today.

Around 400 delegates are expected in Glasgow for the Prospect union’s biennial conference, representing around 120,000 professionals across Britain.

The union is widely perceived as one of the less radical public sector unions.

But an extract of general secretary Mike Clancy’s speech seen by the Morning Star yesterday was scathing reposte to the government’s attacks on workplace regulations and union organising, pay freezes and underinvestment in critical public infrastructure such as energy networks and flood defences.

“Prospect is a union that deals in evidence,” Mr Clancy is expected to say.

“Our political neutrality and ability to influence people across the political spectrum is well-established, but we are dealing with a coalition that as both a government and employer makes its decisions first, then goes in search of the evidence.”