RCN – Royal College of Nursing
Workers In Action — July-August 2023
Industrial disputes round-up
Health bulletin: Defy the anti-union laws
Health bulletin for 1 May 2023
Nurses: defy strike ban and organise for a real pay rise!
The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles
Nurses: what now after the ‘No’ vote?
AS WE go to press NHS managers and Health Minster Steve Barclay are dragging the largest NHS union, the Royal College of Nursing, before the High Court in a bid by to block nurses’ strike action due to start on the May Day weekend. They claimed that the strike mandate would be invalid from midnight […]
Health bulletin: Vote no to pay cuts!
Health bulletin for 29 March 2023
NHS pay deal is a pay cut: vote no!
The pay offer is an insult. Organise to fight for more.
NHS strikes: organise to win
IN A historic first, nurses in the RCN union, pushed to breaking point, have joined the strike wave against the cost of living crisis. And despite media attempts to probe for public disapproval, they have massive support. A million patients are treated in the NHS every 36 minutes, and they are overwhelmingly grateful to and […]
The NHS: Death by a thousand cuts
7.2 million people are on waiting lists for NHS treatment in England.
How can this winter of discontent end in victory?
Editorial December-January 2022/23, No. 399
All out to save the NHS
The government has picked a fight with nurses to hold public sector pay down and continue NHS privatisation.
RCN strike: how can the nurses win?
By KD Tait THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) is taking strike action on 15 and 20 December in the largest nurses’ strike in UK history. After more than a decade of underfunding, health workers have seen their pay, conditions and staffing levels deteriorate to breaking point. Nurses have lost more than 20% of their […]
Health bulletin: Victory to the nurses – defend the NHS
Health bulletin for 14 December 2022
Healthworkers: vote ‘yes’ and prepare to fight
Joint strike committees should mobilise across all unions for a big yes vote, and demand escalating action to win
Public sector pay ballots: press for co-ordination
Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.
Unions must unite healthworkers’ pay claim
Healthworkers are being balloted over the government's insulting 3% pay offer
Health workers can lead public sector revolt on pay
Government offers "insulting" 3%.
Royal College of Nurses training members to fight for a pay rise
Workplace activists can lead the fight for 15%.
NHS pay fight: unite for 15%!
Cross-union strike committees should be elected to unite the unions behind 15% and prepare coordinated action
From hero to zero: how the UK has shown gratitude to their most essential workers during the pandemic
NHS workers campaign for a pay rise.
Grassroots Fight for 15% can Win by Escalating Action
Rallies and demonstrations are due to take place across the country, as part of a growing grassroots revolt by nurses and health workers excluded from a recent public sector pay rise
Thousands march in support of nurses’ fight for 15%
With public support behind them, nurses and health workers can lead the way in fighting for a pay rise for all public sector employees.
