Daily RecordSTRIKING nursery nurses took their battle for better pay to Jack McConnell's doorstep yesterday.
More than 100 staff from North Lanarkshire Council nurseries protested outside the First Minister's constituency office for more than two hours.
McConnell was holding his weekly surgery inside the office in Wishaw as demonstrators brought traffic on the Main Street to a standstill.
Scottish Socialist Party MSP for Central Scotland Carolyn Leckie joined last night's tea-time demonstration.
She said: 'It's encouraging to see so much support this far down the line.
People normally have better things to do on a Friday night so it just shows how determined the girls are.
This strike is unique and certainly the first one I've come across in which both the employers and the Government can say that the case is just.
'No one has said the demands of the nursery nurses are unreasonable, no one has said they are being greedy.
'So why not give them what they're asking for?'
