Public services union Unison has denied claims by Scotland's local authority employers that nursery nurses are on the brink of settling their long-running dispute over pay and workloads at a local level.
Cosla president Pat Watters had recently told the BBC that 20 of the 32 local authorities were now moving towards a pay deal. She said, 'Unison is giving bad advice when it tells its members
to hold out for a national deal. This is going to be resolved locally. 'We've always said that national grading was not on the table because nurses have different pay, scales and grades in different authorities.'
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