Nurses will stage fresh strikes over the first May bank holiday, with staff in emergency departments, intensive care units and cancer care set to take industrial action for the first time.
Workers on the picket line outside Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton during a strike by nurses and ambulance staff in February
The British Medical Association has urged the Government to engage in talks over junior doctors’ demands for ‘pay restoration’ to 2008 levels.
The RCN escalation followed a 54% vote to reject an offer of a 5% pay rise this year and a cash payment for last year.The move followed an earlier announcement by Unison that its NHS members had accepted the same offer by 74% on a turnout of 53%.Unison’s head of health, Sarah Gorton, said the vote did not solve the ‘staffing emergency’ in the NHS.
She said: ‘What has been offered to date is simply not enough. The Government needs to increase what has already been offered and we will be highly critical of any move to reduce it.Union members will walk out for 48 hours from 8pm on April 30 He said: ‘Their decision to escalate strike action with no exemptions, based on a vote from a minority of members, is also hugely concerning.
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