Talks between Unison and employers aimed at resolving the nursery nurse dispute in Scotland ended in dead- lock last week (3 June) without reaching an agreement on pay.
The employers' organisation, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), called the union to the meeting in an attempt to put an end to the strike action which has involved thousands of nursery nurses and is now in its fourth week.
Joe Di Paola, Unison's Scottish organiser for local government, said that COSLA had made 'substantially the same offer' as that of 25 April, which Unison's members had rejected. Although he would report back to the membership he thought it 'unlikely' they would accept it.
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