Nurses have overwhelmingly rejected Labour's pay offer. Now is the time to step up the action.

Industrial disputes round-up

The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles

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 for 29 March 2023

The pay offer is an insult. Organise to fight for more.

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 […]

7.2 million people are on waiting lists for NHS treatment in England.

Editorial December-January 2022/23, No. 399

The government has picked a fight with nurses to hold public sector pay down and continue NHS privatisation.

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 for 14 December 2022

Joint strike committees should mobilise across all unions for a big yes vote, and demand escalating action to win

Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.

Healthworkers are being balloted over the government's insulting 3% pay offer

Government offers "insulting" 3%.

Workplace activists can lead the fight for 15%.

Cross-union strike committees should be elected to unite the unions behind 15% and prepare coordinated action

NHS workers campaign for a pay rise.

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

With public support behind them, nurses and health workers can lead the way in fighting for a pay rise for all public sector employees.

Hundreds joined the nationwide day of action calling for justice for NHS nurses and health workers excluded from a recent public sector pay rise.

The UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed not only the ineptitude of the current government but the sorry state of our National Health Service, which has been pushed to breaking point by successive administrations

By Rebecca Anderson THE leadership of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) is trying to fight back from members’ attempts to oust it, after it misled them over the pay deal which means nurses received on average less than half the three percent promised and voted on. A petition has already forced RCN GS Janet […]