Nursery World - Nursery nurses to meet councils over pay dispute

Hopes have been raised for progress towards a settlement in the long-running dispute between Scotland's public sector nursery nurses and their council employers. The Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) has invited representatives of the unions Unison, the CMT and the T&G, to a meeting to seek ways forward in the dispute after a year of industrial action by nursery nurses and a refusal to implement the Scottish Executive's early years strategies.

The Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) has invited representatives of the unions Unison, the CMT and the T&G, to a meeting to seek ways forward in the dispute after a year of industrial action by nursery nurses and a refusal to implement the Scottish Executive's early years strategies.

Cosla spokesman David Kennedy confirmed that its president, Pat Watters, had written to all the unions representing nursery nurses inviting them to the meeting 'in a bid to end the stalemate' and to find a way to 'move forward'. However, he stressed that Cosla's position - that nursery nurses should negotiate locally with individual councils - had not changed. Mr Kennedy said there was no sign of movement on either side.

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