The pay award will increase basic rates at the Somerston club from 4.65 to 5.25 an hour, and will be backdated from January.
T&G regional industrial organiser Tony Trench said that the after-school club was run by a voluntary management committee, and following the appointment of a new committee in January this year he and colleague Margaret Ann Jones had argued successfully for a pay rise for the staff.
Mr Trench said that the union would regard 5 per hour as the minimum deserved by any childcare worker, but in this case the fact that staff were qualified or working towards qualifications made their low pay particularly unfair.
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