Nursery World - Glasgow strike ends on bitter note (1)

The long-running nursery nurses strike in Glasgow ended bitterly last week, with strikers accusing the council of 'bullying them back to work'. Glasgow's nursery nurses voted by 542 to 98 last Thursday to accept the pay offer of 9.83 per hour with a lump-sum payment of 2,500. But they claimed that prior to the ballot they were threatened with the sack if they did not cease industrial action.

Glasgow's nursery nurses voted by 542 to 98 last Thursday to accept the pay offer of 9.83 per hour with a lump-sum payment of 2,500. But they claimed that prior to the ballot they were threatened with the sack if they did not cease industrial action.

Theresa Ryan, a nursery nurse from Hamilton Hill Family Learning Centre in the Spring Burn district of the city, claimed the votes were driven by fear. 'We were told to either accept the offer and return back to work or to go home and expect a letter telling us we no longer had a job.'

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