Scotland-wide claim for nursery nurses

The campaign to raise nursery nurses' wages took a further step this week as Unison Scotland submitted the same pay claim to all Scotland's local authorities. The union put in its claim to 32 councils in an attempt to achieve a Scotland-wide re-grading for nursery nurses on a local basis, after its previous regrading claim was thrown out by the employers' organisation, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA), on the basis that there is no mechanism for negotiating a national claim for nursery nurses.