UNISON Briefing

What was the decision of the Nursery Nurses Delegate Meeting re local talks?

At a Nursery Nurses Delegate Meeting held on Tuesday 20th April, 2004 the undernoted was agreed:-

• There was a reluctant acceptance that after 11 months of various forms of industrial action including indefinite strike action taken from 1st March, 2004. There has not been any movement in the employer's position who recently have restated the position. That the grading of posts were a matter for the individual local authorities.
  
  
• The members have sustained severe loss of earnings taking strike action despite the financial support given by the union. Many members have said that they can no longer afford to be on strike but still supported the aim of the strike. There was a high possibility that members will drift back to work and therefore break the unity shown by members to date.
  
  
• Nursery nurses should not continue to suffer such heavy financial loss it would be irresponsible of the union to allow them to do so.
  
  
• Having received the details of employer's offers, and tjhe number of local settlements balready reached with nursery nurses in some authorities, branches recognised that the employers are not going to settle nationally.
  
  
• For all these reasons, reluctantly the meeting decided that branches should enter into negotiations with their local authority using details of settlements and offers received to achieve the best possible local agreement.
  
  
• Report back to delegate meeting on 30 April.

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