Glasgow strike ends on bitter note
Catherine Gaunt and Nicole Curnow
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
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.
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