RANGERS could be forced to reveal details of boardroom discussions about a £48million club merchandise deal.
Court officials are to be urged to force the club to hand over written records of several confidential board meetings.
The move is to be made by the GMB union, which is currently in a compensation battle with the Glasgow club and sportswear chain JJB Sport.
The union, which is representing 31 sacked shop workers who claim they were unfairly dismissed, is taking the fight to an industrial tribunal.
Furious staff claim their jobs should have been switched to JJB Sport when Rangers agreed last summer to allow the Wigan-based retailer to exclusively design and sell club merchandise under licence.
The deal, which will trigger royalty payments to Rangers worth millions, led to the closure of 18 club shops in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Workers have already lodged legal papers with the Employment Tribunal Service and a full hearing is expected in the coming months.
The GMB has hired employment law specialist Margaret Gribbon of Digby Brown Solicitors in Glasgow.
Rangers are accused of unfair dismissal, failing to conduct detailed consultations with staff and failing to protect jobs by not transferring staff to JJB Sports.
The sportswear giant is also accused of breaching Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) legislation.
Today the GMB confirmed it plans a new legal move when senior official Ian King said: "We are to instruct our lawyers to seek a court order to try to obtain minutes of board meetings at Rangers months before the club made known its shops were to be shut down."
A club spokesman said: "We are not going to comment."
To the best of our knowledge here at Mon the Hoops, only one member of Rangers staff (Andy Cameron's son) was given employment after the closing of the shops. The other 220 employees are claiming compensation for loss of earnings.
Could be a pretty penny. Looks like David may have to dip into the "300 years of the Union" profits generated last month.
Yours in not shopping in JJB
Clydebuilt