Nursery nurses surprised beyond description

Nursery nurses in Leicestershire have worked with the public services union Unison for the past four years devising a new job description that reflected our role in the classroom and our particular expertise. It also reflected quite clearly the management structure, how we worked with teachers and the areas of responsibilities. During the autumn term last year the Unison representative told me that meetings with Leicestershire County Council had been successful and that he had negotiated a much better job description on our behalf. In his view, we should be awarded a better salary in due course after the job...