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Nursery nurses step up strike pressure

Nursery nurse members of Unison in Scotland have stepped up the campaign for their first pay review in 15 years.

Nursery nurse members of Unison in Scotland have stepped up the campaign for their first pay review in 15 years.

Nursery nurses lobbied their employers' organisation, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), in Edinburgh last Thursday (29 May) as they continued waves of strike action across the country.

Unison members are in the third week of a rolling programme of industrial action for a pay and regrading review, which will spread to a different area of Scotland each week in an attempt to minimise disruption to parents and children.

Barbara Foubister, a nursery nurse and Unison's Edinburgh branch chair, said, 'We want direct and meaningful talks with our employers, not through the media.

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