Edinburgh on Strike 17 and 18 September. Major
rally in Edinburgh on Wednesday 17.
Over 150 Edinburgh nursery nurse members attended
a meeting on 4 September and made it clear that
the expected CoSLA offer is not enough with
only a maximum of £900 on offer (nothing
for 37hr/52 week staff) and 'term time' working
plans. The offer is to be made formally on 12
September (not 8 September as orginally published).
See details below.
Keep checking here for details of the action
and march on the 17th.
Week of action from 8 September cancelled.
New action is two days in week beginning 15
September as CoSLA report rejected. Major rally
in Glasgow 13 September.
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2 September 2003: The trade union
side has just rejected a 'flawed' CoSLA offer
based on its nursery nurse 'Technical Working
Group' report. Now further action will go ahead
in the form of a big supporters' rally in Glasgow
on 13 September and strike action around the
country from 15 September.
Plans for the one week from 8 September
have been changed by the Nursery Nurse Working
Group and the next stage of the action will
now be two days strike in the week beginning
15 September - on either Tuesday and Wednesday
or Wednesday and Thursday depending on which
area you are in. Check with your branch for
details.
The action will include a major event in Edinburgh
on the Wednesday
But the first event is the major rally planned
for Saturday 13 September to give other UNISON
members and parents the opportunity to join
nursery nurses and show their support. Scheduled
for 1.00-5.00pm on Glasgow Green, it will
feature a family day, with many free events
laid on for children - bouncy castles, stalls,
face painting and other entertainment.
There will also be a cross-party panel of supporting
speakers and support from other trade unions
including the FBU who have provided a fire engine!
Angela Lynes, NEC member outlined why nursery
nurse leaders had no alternative but to reject
the offer. "The top of CoSLA's report doesn't
even meet the bottom of the nursery nurses claim.
There is nothing for Heads and Depute Heads.
It is only a recommendation and there is far
too much left to local discretion".
The previous week, a nursery nurse delegate
meeting heard what was likely to be the basis
of the offer and signalled that it was likely
to be rejected. In particular the report failed
to guarantee that councils will pay anything
in it.
"Given that the whole package is discretionary,
it provides too many opportunities for local
councils or even local management to split the
workforce", said Carol Ball, Chair of the
Nursery Nurse Working Party.
Back on 11 August, UNISON had already branded
CoSLA's Working Group as 'flawed'. Joe Di Paola,
UNISON's Scottish Organiser for Local Government
said then, "Nursery nurses are deeply suspicious
of this technical working group. The employers'
technical report will be worthless unless individual
councils can guarantee that they will implement
any grading or backdating of any agreed pay
level.
"In addition, the remit of the group failed
to include career structure for nursery nurses."
Nursery nurses have been taking strike action
around the country for almost four months, along
with a boycott of extra duties. The average
nursery nurse is on only £13,000 a year
and their last review was 15 years ago.
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