RCN nursing union members in Scotland voted overwhelmingly to reject a 5% pay offer and a majority gave their support to strike action. The union will launch a ballot in England and Wales in September with a similar recommendation from the leadership to reject the pay offer and support industrial action. This opens up the prospect of the first ever industrial action by the union. In England and Wales, the union’s main pay demand is for a rise of 5% above inflation (currently 11.8%) to combat years of wage stagnation and the cost-of-living crisis.
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