The strike vote was the latest move in a long-running dispute between Unison, the trade union representing the 3,000 nursery nurses, and their local authority employer, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA).
Last week Unison said that 81 per cent of the nursery nurses had voted for an all-out strike and that the ballot had had a 70 per cent turnout. The union said it had held the ballot to reaffirm the mandate for industrial action after ten months of dispute with CoSLA, even though it had not been required to do so under employment legislation.
Angela Lynes, chair of Unison's industrial action committee, described the ballot result as 'magnificent'. She said, 'The nursery nurses have spoken. And spoken clearly. They deserve to have their pay increased and they want that increase to be applied across Scotland.'
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