The council asked parents to make alternative arrangements for their children as nursery nurses belonging to public sector union Unison went on strike in their long-running campaign for better pay and career development. The local authority closed 96 of its pre-five establishments last week because of strikes.
Union leaders saw the council's move as a mark of the solid support for the strike among nursery nurses. Carol Ball, chair of Unison's nursery nurses working party, said Glasgow City Council would not have closed all the affected the nursery schools and nurseries if it had thought some staff would ignore the strike.
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