The strike, which will last until midnight Monday to Tuesday, came after talks fell through at the last minute as organizers guarantee minimum services so as not to affect patients.
He British nursing staff starts on Sunday at 7 p.m 28 hour break of duration after the failure of the last salary negotiation with the government.
The strike, which will continue to midnight from Monday to Tuesdaytook place after the last-minute failure of the talks, while the organizers guarantee minimal services so as not to harm the patients.
“Our staff, as I have said time and time again, will never leave their patients unsafe or create more risks that already exist in the system at this point,” Secretary-General Pat Cullen of the Royal College of Nursing told Sky News.
Nurses are a a quarter of the entire public health system workforce and they represent the bulk of the working population. The workers of the National Health Service (nhsfor its acronym in English), must be remembered, have been explained several times in recent months in disputes about wages and working conditions.
On this occasion want unions Unison and GMB voted in favour of a government wage offer to end the strikes, while Unite and RCN voted against and they chose to start the break.
The NHS has warned that staffing levels for some parts of the country will be “exceptionally low, even lower than on previous strike days” and added that the number of appointments rescheduled as a result of the strike will reach half a million next week .
ETB interviewed a nurse in February who quit her job after 12 years in public health because of the conditions:
Source: EITB
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