UK govt's pay offer: Nurses' strikes to go on

UK nurses warned there will be no quick conclusion to strikes as healthcare workers prepare for a new walkout beginning Sunday night.

Members of the Royal College of Nursing will strike from 8 pm Sunday until midnight on Monday. Ambulance staff in some regions will also walk out on Monday and Tuesday, in the sixth consecutive month of industrial action for the National Health Service.

The strike is particularly controversial after members of another major health union, the GMB, voted Friday to accept the government's latest pay offer.


That may add to pressure on the RCN to accept a deal with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government after a May 2 meeting of the NHS Staff Council, an umbrella labour body.