Nursery nurses lobbied their employers' organisation, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), in Edinburgh last Thursday (29 May) as they continued waves of strike action across the country.
Unison members are in the third week of a rolling programme of industrial action for a pay and regrading review, which will spread to a different area of Scotland each week in an attempt to minimise disruption to parents and children.
Barbara Foubister, a nursery nurse and Unison's Edinburgh branch chair, said, 'We want direct and meaningful talks with our employers, not through the media. We want no talk of local job evaluations that do not exist, and we want a fair basic wage for nursery nurses across Scotland. After 15 years we are completely behind this claim.'
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