NURSERY nurses and Glasgow City Council yesterday remained at loggerheads in their pay dispute.
Both sides said they were no closer to a solution and expected industrial action to continue after the end of the bank holiday weekend.
Nursery nurses rejected a final pay offer, which was worth (pounds) 9.83 an hour plus a lump sum of (pounds) 2500, from the council at a mass meeting held at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall last week.
A spokesman for Unison said industrial action would continue as normal. He said: ''As far as I am aware, there is not likely to be another offer. Industrial action has never stopped. There are no further talks planned.''
A council statement said the settlement would have involved increases of between 4.2% and 23.1% for nursery nurses, determined by their current grade and length of service.
The deal would also have included lump sums of (pounds) 2500 for all staff to recognise that the dispute had run for more than a year.
Staff voted 445 to 287 to reject the latest offer and the council said it was at the end of the road with nursery nurses and would put no further offers on the table.
Last week, the council announced that from June 1 it would offer enhanced nursery provision for all children due to attend primary school in August. This enhanced service will also be made available during the school holidays following an agreement reached earlier this week by the council and staff who are working.
But the news that the council planned to use teachers to break the strike over the summer months provoked an outcry. The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said its members had been advised not to carry out additional duties.
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