The RCN nursing union has voted for industrial action and strikes over pay across the health service. The actions could spread as other unions’ ballot results are announced in the coming weeks. The trade union UNISON is recommending strike action to its 350,000 members with the ballot due to end on 25 November. Meanwhile the trade union Unite plans to ballot its members and is already carrying out ballots of its members in the ambulance service, as is the GMB union.
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