Shame on councils

Wednesday, February 4, 2004

As the national employer of nursery nurses in the state sector, members of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA), should be ashamed of themselves in allowing this strike to get as far as it has. Without these women and men, we parents would be at a loss - and so would our children. Yes, as parents, we can offer some form of learning at home, but it would not be to the standard that the nursery nurses do. And yes, I have seen in my own daughter's nursery that it seems to be the nursery nurse who does most of the work - a lot more than the teacher who always seems to be sitting at her table doing paperwork of sorts, when she is earning twice the salary.