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A MONTH-LONG consultation on the government’s 3 per cent pay offer to NHS staff could be the first step towards industrial action, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned today.
Nurses nationwide are taking part in a “summer of action” to campaign for a fully funded 12.5 per cent rise.
Earlier this year, the union declared that it had a £35 million industrial action fund. It is is already in dispute with NHS Scotland, having rejected a 4 per cent offer.
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