Scottish councils accused the nursery nurses' trade union, Unison, of spreading misinformation about the nature of the dispute and of 'moving the goalposts' and ignoring pay offers made by individual councils.
A report published last week by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA) claimed that the nursery nurses wanted the same pay for working 39 weeks a years as for working 52 weeks a year, regardless of the nature of the work they do.
However, Carol Ball, head of Unison's nursery nurses working party, said last week that the nursery nurses wanted equal pay, but on a pro-rata basis, so there would be 3,700 difference in annual pay between those working 39 weeks and those working 52 weeks a year.
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