Nurses reject UK government’s pay offer and escalate strikes

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Royal College of Nursing members will walk out for 48 hours from 8.00pm local time on April 30. Read more at straitstimes.com.

LONDON - Britain’s main nursing union said on Friday its members had rejected a government pay offer and immediately announced an escalation in strike action.

Earlier on Friday, the Unison union, representing healthcare workers overall, said nearly 75 per cent of its members had voted to accept the same offer. She called for “significant action” to urgently address under-staffing and low pay in the publicly funded National Health Service .RCN members walked out for the first time in the union’s 108-year history late last year, joining a wave of public and private sector workers calling for pay rises as inflation soared.

 

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