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Historic vote on strike action by 30,000 NHS nurses begins
RCN deciding on whether to withdraw their labour for the first time in the union’s 106-year history
Members of the Royal College of Nursing take part in a protest outside the Mater Hospital in Belfast, to demand a pay increase to help protect workers from the cost-of-living crisis
A HISTORIC vote on strike action by 300,000 NHS nurses begins today as a poll shows that almost two-thirds of the public would support a walkout.
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) are voting on whether to withdraw their labour for the first time in the union’s 106-year history.
In a last-minute appeal to members, general secretary Pat Cullen urged them to “vote Yes.”
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