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Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, central London, as nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland take industrial action over pay.
A DECADE of real-terms pay cuts and freezes have cost hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers at least a year’s worth of pay, new research suggests.
The TUC said that its analysis shows that midwives, nurses and physiotherapists have suffered a real-terms pay loss of between £30,000 and £48,000 since 2010.
The trade union body estimates that public-sector workers are still earning £200 a month less — in real terms — than in 2010, prompting renewed calls for the government to kickstart “genuine” pay negotiations with unions.
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