Early years workers who belong to Unison Scotland are set to receive a 4 per cent pay rise from April 2003, in the final instalment of a four-year-pay deal with local authorities. This means that annual salaries for the union's lowest-paid members will rise above 10,000, the equivalent of just over 5.20 an hour. The deal was put in place following a five-month dispute in 2001, after the union rejected the local authorities' initial pay offer. Unison's Scottish organiser for local government, Joe Di Paola, said, 'While this was a good deal we cannot be complacent. We are only too aware of problems that local councils are having attracting staff in many services.'
Early years workers who belong to Unison Scotland are set to receive a 4 per cent pay rise from April 2003, in the final instalment of a four-year-pay deal with local authorities. This means that annual salaries for the union's lowest-paid members will rise above 10,000, the equivalent of just over 5.20 an hour. The deal was put in place following a five-month dispute in 2001, after the union rejected the local authorities' initial pay offer. Unison's Scottish organiser for local government, Joe Di Paola, said, 'While this was a good deal we cannot be complacent. We are only too aware of problems that local councils are having attracting staff in many services.'
