Daily Record: SACK CALL IN NURSERY STRIKE ROWNURSERY nurses have been sold out by local authority boss Pat Watters and he must resign, an MSP said yesterday.
Scottish Socialist MSP Frances Curran has tabled a no confidence motion in Watters, president of the council's body COSLA.
She said yesterday: 'I have talked to nursery nurses and the overwhelming opinion is Pat Watters has sold them out.
'He has failed in his duty to provide for the under-fives and he should make way now for someone who will.'
Curran's call came as COSLA and the striking nurses' union Unison clashed again in the bitter pay dispute.
Motion to Scottish Parliament*S2M-1110# Frances Curran: President of COSLA Should Resign—That the Parliament has no confidence in the president of COSLA, Pat Watters, and considers that his refusal to negotiate a national pay and careers structure with the nursery nurses’ union UNISON has provoked a national strike, now in its fourth week; believes that, as the leader of local authorities in Scotland who deliver the age three to five curriculum, Mr Watters has responsibility for ensuring excellent standards in our pre-five sector for both children and staff, and believes that Mr Watters has failed in this responsibility and should tender his resignation.
