Schools and care services across Glasgow will be closed for a second day as thousands of workers strike over pay equality.

More than 8000 Unison and GMB members walked out on Tuesday in a 48-hour strike which the council leader said would gave a "devastating" impact on services.

Strikers manned picket lines around the city and later joined a march from Glasgow Green to George Square for a rally, chanting "equal pay or we walk away".

Around 12,500 workers, mostly women, are proceeding with claims against the council following a Court of Session ruling last year.

Unison regional organiser Mandy McDowall said: "This strike comes at the end of ten years of litigation through the courts.

"Last year the courts agreed with us that the council's pay scheme was unequal and invalid and we were sent back to negotiate a new pay scheme and settlement of equal pay claims for thousands of women across Glasgow.

"In ten months and 21 meetings of negotiations we have got nowhere.

"There is no detail on the table that allows us to have confidence that the council will meet the deadline of December that was equally set."

All early years establishments, additional support for learning (ASL) schools and mainstream primaries were closed on Tuesday.

Home care services for around 6000 people were also affected by the industrial action.

Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said her administration was working to make sure the workers received the financial settlements they are due.

She said: "They won their case the day that the SNP was elected to lead Glasgow City Council and we have been working ever since then to deliver them justice.

"We are extremely close to it and I am confident that they will get the settlement that they are entitled to and we will start paying out in the next financial year."