HUNDREDS of workers will be balloted for strike action over shocking plans to privatise IT services at Glasgow City Council in a bid to cut costs, their union announced yesterday.

Unison has warned that the plans to hand over the the council’s entire IT service to Canadian multinational CGI, in a deal worth an estimated £400 million, will damage the service and lead to job losses.

Glasgow branch secretary Brian Smith said: “The council appears to be moving down the road of privatisation.