Nursery nurses belonging to Unison dressed as suffragettes in Dundee's City Square on 1 April to highlight their long-running pay and re-grading campaign and indefinite strike, which began on 1 March. Last week talks took place between the public services union and the employers' organisation, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, for the first time since last summer. Both sides described the talks as 'helpful'.
Nursery nurses belonging to Unison dressed as suffragettes in Dundee's City Square on 1 April to highlight their long-running pay and re-grading campaign and indefinite strike, which began on 1 March.
Last week talks took place between the public services union and the employers' organisation, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, for the first time since last summer. Both sides described the talks as 'helpful'.
First minister Jack McConnell said at the end of last month that a failure to reach an agreement was 'a national disgrace'. So far, 12 of the 32 councils have agreed local pay deals, but around 80 per cent of Unison's nursery nurses are still out on strike after six weeks of industrial action. Unison said it was holding out for a national agreement to end the dispute.
