Nurses strikes: Union boss says members are being ‘handled as criminals’
Nurses are being "treated as criminals" for happening strike, a union chief has claimed. Pat Cullen, the top of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN), described well being secretary Steve Barclay's resolution to "pursue legal action" over the union's upcoming strike as "cruel" and "unacceptable".
Members of the (RCN) working for the NHS in England are making ready to take industrial motion for 48 hours over the May financial institution vacation.They are set to stroll out from 8pm, or the beginning of an evening shift on 30 April, till 8pm or the beginning of the evening shift on 2 May.The motion will see nurses in emergency departments, intensive care and most cancers wards down instruments for the primary time.
But NHS bosses imagine the union's six-month mandate for industrial...