Liverpool nursery workers who lost jobs after striking call for solidarity in sector

More than 50 early years staff without work after Merseyside service closed days after one-day strike

A group of early years workers who lost their jobs without warning days after a one-day strike have called on others in the sector to “stand up and be counted”.

More than 50 staff, thought to be the first group of early years workers to have their union recognised in England, were put out of work, leaving 200 families scrambling to find childcare, when the Orchard nursery in Huyton, Merseyside, closed suddenly.