At a meeting last week the public services trade union agreed that it would be investigating offers across local authorities in an attempt to end the dispute, which began on 1 March. Local pay deals have already been agreed with 15 of Scotland's 32 local authorities. The latest to settle are East Dunbartonshire, Midlothian and North Lanarkshire.
Angela Lynes, chair of the negotiators, spoke of the difficulty Unison faced in agreeing to move to local negotiations, but said it could no longer ask the striking nursery nurses to 'continue to suffer in the face of the employers' intransigence'.
She added that the nursery nurses would remain on strike until satisfactory local offers were made, and ensured that 'local deals will be better than they otherwise would have been'.
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