Nursery nurse members of the public services union Unison took part in a three-day programme of strike action across Scotland last week, demanding a review and regrading of their jobs.
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.'
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