Stirling council has agreed a 12 per cent increase with its nursery nurses.
It follows settlements in Perth and Kinross, South Lanarkshire, Aberdeen, and Shetland and the Highlands.
However, Unison is balloting more than 4,000 nursery nurses across Scotland, and should find out within the next two weeks if its members want to go ahead with "all-out indefinite strike action" (News, 21 January).
Nursery nurses staged a strike last Wednesday (4 February) and were due to stage another yesterday (10 February), after Children Now went to press.
Carol Ball, chair of Unison Scotland's nursery nurse working party, said the union was willing to negotiate with Cosla, which represents Scottish councils, but that Cosla would "rather shut nursery services down" than face up to its responsibilities.
