The STUC had criticised the scheme for attracting "middle-class golf fans" rather than providing jobs for local people.

BBC: Applications to volunteer at the Ryder Cup hit 9,000

Stephen Boyd, from the STUC, said the plan was not "spreading the supposedly massive economic benefits throughout the population".

BBC: Gleneagles Ryder Cup volunteer plan 'unacceptable'

The STUC has called a march and rally in Glasgow on Saturday to call for a change in economic priorities.

BBC: Scottish trades unions launch employment campaign

If Johann Lamont won't listen to people like the STUC, then I really don't know who she will listen to.

BBC: Margaret Curran

Up to 40 people are chasing every job vacancy in some parts of the country, the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has claimed.

BBC: Scottish trades unions launch employment campaign

The STUC said the trend was "deeply worrying".

BBC: Scottish trades unions launch employment campaign

The STUC's assistant secretary, Ian Tasker, has called for the jobs to be offered as paid positions to "provide some step-up to individuals in these communities that might see them making that journey into long-term employment".

BBC: Applications to volunteer at the Ryder Cup hit 9,000

Speaking on behalf of the STUC, Stephen Boyd said the discussion could not take place "divorced from the state of the macroeconomic environment" and while employers had legitimate concerns about taking on vulnerable young people, much of the employer position was "prejudiced as much as evidenced".

BBC: Scottish Parliament

Among a series of proposals in the report, Yes Scotland called on the STUC to urge all political parties to spell out how they would create a more socially just country in the event of a Yes vote in the independence referendum, which is due to be held in the autumn of 2014.

BBC: Houses of Parliament