The action started on Tuesday in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, where around 2,500 nursery nurses went on strike. They were joined by 2,000 more strikers from the east and north of Scotland on Wednesday, and returned to work on Thursday and Friday respectively.
Carol Ball, chair of Unison's nursery nurse working party, said, 'This staggered action aims to try to minimise the disruption to parents while maintaining the highest possible public profile of nursery nurses.'
A rally of nursery nurses in Glasgow's George Square on Tuesday was told that the union at UK level had supported a plan of action that will continue for the next five weeks unless the employers come forward with a clear offer in Scotland. Jo Di Paola, Unison's Scottish local government organiser, said, 'Unison's National Industrial Action Committee, which met on Monday, agreed to a co-ordinated rolling programme of strikes over the next five weeks. We plan to strike in different parts of Scotland on different weeks, to ensure that the momentum continues, but parents don't have to face too much disruption.'
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