Unison estimated that 4,000 nursery nurse members walked out in protest last Wednesday and on Tuesday of this week. The union has been pressing Cosla, the councils' representative body, to negotiate a national settlement in the ongoing dispute before nursery nurses vote on an all-out strike later this month. Since making a recommended offer of around 9.33 an hour last autumn, Colsa has deferred negotiations to individual councils.
Carol Ball, chair of Unison's nursery nurse working party, said, 'It is outrageous that, rather than face up to their responsibilities, Cosla would rather nursery services faced shutdown. It is clearly a Scottish-wide responsibility, and Cosla is supposed to represent Scottish employers.'
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