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11 December 2003 12,000 reasons for council to listen to nursery nursesUNISON's Edinburgh nursery nurses will present Edinburgh councillors with a petition signed by over 12,000 Edinburgh citizens in just a few days, demanding that the council get talks at CoSLA under way to reach a fair national settlement in their long running dispute. To underline the point, UNISON's Scottish organiser for local government will join nursery nurses in a lobby of the council today on the morning of their national demonstration in Dundee. Joe Di Paola said "This petition, and the support we will have from parents at the demonstration in Dundee later today, shows just how frustrated parents and the public are becoming with CoSLA's intransigence. "With Edinburgh's key role in CoSLA, they should stop playing games and pretending they can do nothing about this. They must and their considerable influence to achieve a fair, lasting and realistic national settlement. It is no more than the parents of Edinburgh will expect of them "CoSLA should stop wasting their time encouraging councils to try and split nursery nurses with local offers. Nursery nurses are rejecting these. They can see what a mess would be created if nursery nurses are paid differently depending on where they work. Not only is this unfair, it is bad for the education of kids and the service as a whole." "In Edinburgh, for the vast majority of nursery nurses, the CoSLA offer and the so-called 'local offer' mean a CUT in the hourly rate. This is clearly a nonsense". ENDS For Further Information Please Contact: Joe Di Paola (Scottish Organiser - Local Govt) 0870 7777 006(w) 07990 505698(m) Carol Ball (Chair Nursery Nurse WP) 0141-552 7069(o) 07803 952263 (m) Chris Bartter (Communications Officer) 0870 7777 006(w) 0771 558 3729(m) John Stevenson (City of Edinburgh Branch) 07876795018 |
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